Patricia L. Sharpe
anglais
مقابلۀ حُسن
© Fahmida Riaz
Extrait de: Four Walls and a Black Veil
Karachi, Pakistan: Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press , 2004
ISBN: 0 19 597711 4
Production audio: 2005, M.Mechner / Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
Extrait de: Four Walls and a Black Veil
Karachi, Pakistan: Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press , 2004
ISBN: 0 19 597711 4
Production audio: 2005, M.Mechner / Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
Vital Statistics
You
have measured me,
waist, hips, breast,
and all the rest.
The curves
held a heart
and the round skull
a brain.
If I'm valued
just by the inch,
why do you shrink
from tit for tat,
When I start
to measure
some of your
parts?
Translated by Patricia L. Sharpe
© Oxford University Press
published in: Fahmida Riaz: Four Walls and a Black Veil.
Foreword by Aamer Hussein. Karachi: Oxford University Press 2004
© Oxford University Press
published in: Fahmida Riaz: Four Walls and a Black Veil.
Foreword by Aamer Hussein. Karachi: Oxford University Press 2004