A Sky Full of Birds- Sahitya Akademi Award-Winning Collection of Urdu Poems (An Old and Rare Book)

The present volume is a beautiful collection of sixty-seven poems which originally appeared in Urdu as Parindon Bhara Aasman. Rich and suggestive, the poems depict Komal's keen social awareness, rare sensitivity, warmth of feeling and deep human understanding. Komal uses images and symbols "not to point a moral or adorn a tale but to depict a picture, allude to a mood and refer to a feeling", as Professor Ale Ahmed Suroor aptly puts it. To mundane themes of everyday life Komal gives a charming freshness and transforms them into aesthetic experiences of multilayered metaphysical dimensions.

This collection was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu in 1985.

Balraj Komal (b. 1928), whose literary career spans more than four decades has to his credit nine volumes of poetry and a volume each of short stories and literary criticism. He has also published a novelette in Hindi. His works have been translated into several Indian languages and in English and German. He has received awards from the Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy, the Mir Academy, Lucknow, the Urdu Academy, Delhi and award from the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

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