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Title: The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib by Ghalib, Robert Bly, Sunil Dutta ISBN: 0-88001-686-8 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful poetry by Ghalib and lovely translation by Bly
Comment: I am impressed. Ghalib is indeed a great poet and his work must be read by more people. I am so thankful to Robert Bly for doing this beautiful translation. I think Mr. Bly was the only person who could have done this great work - he seems to have a foot in the eastern horizon. His wonderful translations of Mirabai and Kabir and his decades of exposing deep poetry from other cultures shows up in this book. I hope everyone would read this book. The couplets stand by themselves in the poems and their color and depth continues to vary (this poetic form is so different from other poetry - each two line couplet within the same poem was like a poem itself. And each couplet within a poem did not necessarily have a relationship with the preceding couplets.) Reading Ghazals seems like counting different colored pearls threaded on an invisible thread.
Thanks to Mr. Bly for doing this wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beauty pours out of these poems
Comment: Ghazals are Urdu poems that have at least five couplets. Interestingly, the couplets within a Ghazal generally are not related to each other and stand on their own. Ghalib is probably the most loved Urdu poet. He was a master of Urdu poetry and his considerable linguistic skills in Urdu and Persian allowed him to create subtle and extremely complex metaphysical, existential, romantic, sad, and biting poems. One reason why Ghalib is not as well known as Rumi (though, a better poem, in my opinion) is the fact that his poetry never received good treatment from other translators. In fact, when I read some of the translations of Ghalib's poem, I sometimes laugh at the idiotic interpretations and mediocre quality. Even when an Urdu scholar translates Ghalib's poem, the problem is that this scholar is often mediocre poet and poor in English penmanship. The results are horrendous (read the translations by Ghalib Academy, New Delhi and see what I mean).
This work by Bly and Dutta is simply marvellous. I think the credit probably goes to Bly as he is not only a great poet, he also has deep experience in translating poetry. I doubt anyone else could have done a better job than this. Well done and thanks.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding book, paperback is even better
Comment: The paperback version of this book contains the Ghazals in English, Devnagari, and Urdu script. Go for the paperback and see how the original poems look in Urdu. For those of us who can read Urdu, it is a delight to read the original verses and match them with the English translation.
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Title: Love Sonnets of Ghalib by Sarafaraz Niazi, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Sarfaraz Niazi ISBN: 0971474605 Publisher: Ghalib Academy of America Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali ISBN: 0870239759 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky, Henry S. Mindlin, H. Wilberforce Clarke ISBN: 0915828189 Publisher: Sufism Reoriented Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver ISBN: 0156724006 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Life of Pi by Yann Martel ISBN: 0156027321 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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