Ardour: Poems from the Daud Merel van Slobbe Elaine Kahn

Elaine Kahn

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Anne Boyer

Ardour: Poems from the Daud Merel van Slobbe Elaine KahnMatthew Rana Ardour is a dialogue with Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalibs (c. 17971869) Urdu Divan. Addressing a beloved in whose name it is also inscribed, Ardour is a cry of intimacy and separation resonant with the affective intensities of form. It is the latest instalment of Ranas serial poem The Daud, an inquiry into Urdu poetry and the ghazal, ongoing since 2003.