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Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urdu by Aijaz Ahmed, W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, William

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Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urdu by Aijaz Ahmed, W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, William - Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan
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This approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib's ghazals. The ghazals (poems consisting of at least five unrelated couplets) show a time when old values were breaking down with no new ones to take their place. Aijaz Ahmad began by selecting 37 of the ghazals for literal translation. These versions were then given to the American poets who made poetic interpretations of those ghazals which interested them. The resulting variety of ...

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