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Title: Love Sonnets of Ghalib by Sarafaraz Niazi, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Sarfaraz Niazi ISBN: 0-9714746-0-5 Publisher: Rupa Co. Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: God must have lived through Ghalib
Comment: Genius incarnate, I do not have words nor thoughts to describe your poetry!!
Rating: 4
Summary: God lived through Ghalib
Comment: Genius incarnate, I have no words, no thoughts to describe you and your poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: absolutely fantastic
Comment: If you are like me-passionate about urdu poetry and shairy, but cant read urdu-this book is for you.
Ghalib, undoubtedely, is one of world's best writers ever. But everybody knows that, so lets just talk about this book.
This is indeed a labour of love. Just flipping through the pages, one can see how much hard word has gone into it. But more than that, you will realize how passionate the writer is about Ghalib and about urdu poetry. To translate and explain thousands of couplets is no mean feat. And I salute the auther for this wonderful work.
Each and every shair-couplet- of Ghalib has been given in urdu, also in roman script so that if you can speak hindi/urdu/hindustani, but cant read urdu, you can recite the couplets in original. Then he has translated it literally, in two sentences. Which is really wonderful work, and those who dont understand urdu can appreciate the beauty of ghalib's work.
But it doesn't end here, then the author goes on to explain what Ghalib meant by that couplet. Ghalib's poetry is not always forthcoming and easy to understand. It has many facets to it. A deep hidden meaning, philosophical overtures, social and political satires, historical and religious references-and most times-Ghalib's irreverence to them. And one can interpret it in many ways. The author explains in detail, going on to pages sometimes to explain one couplet. This is where the depth of author's hard work shows. I didn't always agree with him on the real or hidden meaning of some couplets-but then, that's Ghalib for you. You can take it the way you want, and the way one would interpret it would depend on that person himself.
The artwork was a bit disappointing but having said that, this book is worth its weight in gold.
I hope author is going to continue his work and give us Mir, Iqbal, Faiz-------. I for one would keep my ears close to ground and wait eagerly.
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Title: The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib by Ghalib, Robert Bly, Sunil Dutta ISBN: 0880016868 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali ISBN: 0870239759 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 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: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran ISBN: 089009389X Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Gitanjali : A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate by Rabindranath Tagore ISBN: 0684839342 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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