
How Beautiful People Are
Ayaz Pirani
In How Beautiful People Are, his third collection, Ayaz Pirani continues to write his people’s pothi: a trans-national, inter-generational poetry of post-colonial love and loss animated by the syncretizing figure of Kabir and drawn from the extraordinary diwan of ginan and granth literature. Walking alongside the tiger of Ali and an assortment of beloved infidels, Ayaz uncovers just How Beautiful People Are. After all, what will darkness do, his poems ask, when a true guru makes light?
Duration - 30m.
Author - Ayaz Pirani.
Narrator - Ayaz Pirani.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Ayaz Pirani ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
In How Beautiful People Are, his third collection, Ayaz Pirani continues to write his people’s pothi: a trans-national, inter-generational poetry of post-colonial love and loss animated by the syncretizing figure of Kabir and drawn from the extraordinary diwan of ginan and granth literature. Walking alongside the tiger of Ali and an assortment of beloved infidels, Ayaz uncovers just How Beautiful People Are. After all, what will darkness do, his poems ask, when a true guru makes light? Duration - 30m. Author - Ayaz Pirani. Narrator - Ayaz Pirani. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Ayaz Pirani ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:06
Epigraph
Duration:00:00:04
Part 1: Beloved Infidel
Duration:00:00:04
Written With the Other Hand
Duration:00:00:30
Historical Disadvantage
Duration:00:00:27
Nutshells
Duration:00:00:29
Ali’s Tiger
Duration:00:01:22
Beloved Infidel
Duration:00:00:28
Nakalanki
Duration:00:00:45
Entropomorphist
Duration:00:00:37
Childless
Duration:00:00:29
Sita and Ram
Duration:00:00:39
In a Good Way
Duration:00:00:28
I Spend My Life Learning About Myself What She Sees in a Glance
Duration:00:00:11
Charro del Valle
Duration:00:00:27
Sat Panth
Duration:00:00:30
Part 2: Death to America
Duration:00:00:06
The Door’s not Talking
Duration:00:00:30
Saith the Missionary
Duration:00:00:34
Poem for My Grandmother and Her Dog
Duration:00:00:35
In Kitchener Jamatkhana, 1976
Duration:00:00:47
Ontario
Duration:00:00:41
Sat Gur
Duration:00:00:29
Umed and Sheru
Duration:00:01:16
Ngorongoro
Duration:00:00:55
Kilimanjaro
Duration:00:00:40
Origins
Duration:00:00:27
Where Are You From?
Duration:00:00:41
Royal Ontario Museum
Duration:00:00:45
POC RSVP
Duration:00:00:52
OEDAF
Duration:00:00:17
Death to America
Duration:00:00:31
POC QED
Duration:00:00:39
Part 3: (White) City, Kid (Tropic)
Duration:00:02:22
Part 4: Kabir's Loneliness
Duration:00:00:04
Other Muslim Bans
Duration:00:00:53
Pub Speech, Bamburi Hotel, 1958
Duration:00:00:36
How Beautiful People Are
Duration:00:00:35
Childless 2 0
Duration:00:00:30
Post-Colonial Loser
Duration:00:00:35
Language Arts
Duration:00:00:27
POC RIP
Duration:00:00:13
Kabir’s Loneliness
Duration:00:02:10
Notes
Duration:00:01:27
Acknowledgements
Duration:00:01:45
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:09