# Shouting at the Dead

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2024/01/20/shouting-at-the-dead/
- Published: 2024-01-20T11:56:33+00:00
- Author: us\_basu

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**Author: **Abdul Jamil Urfi[⌊A sample cover of the book: red handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Shouting-at-the-Dead.jpeg)
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Pages:** 76 **Year of Publication:** 2023 **Price:** Rs 350 **ISBN:** 978-81-968192-
2-4 (9788196819224)

_**About the Author**_

Abdul Jamil Urfi has been writing since his college days. Although a firm believer
in the philosophy that poetry can only be written in one’s native language, he nevertheless
started writing poetry in English, some of which he managed to get published in 
journals like _Skylark, Vayavya, Borderless Journal_ and _New Asian Writing_. During
the Covid lockdown he collected all his poems which has resulted in this volume,‘
Shouting at the Dead’.

_**Teaser**_

_Kati Patang (The broken kite)_

It all seems to come out from a poem:
 Clusters of houses grouped into mohallas,
only a few open spaces. The dusty, dirty town surprisingly has very little vegetation
except for a few gnarled trees. One has a kite stuck in its branches —the proverbial
_kati patang_. Deeply entangled. Meshed up. Broken. And situated deep within barren
branches, a little green bird, the Coppersmith Barbet, hardly visible, calling out
_tooot tooot tooot_ Sounding like a hammer beating on iron. Very metallic. Very 
sharp but a bit subdued, because it is winter.

_**Contents**_

46 poems

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