The lightning should have fallen on Ghalib
Subtitle: selected poems of Ghalib
By: translated from the Urdu by Robert Bly and Sunil Dutta.
Contributors: Bly, Robert.; Dutta, Sunil.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hopewell, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Description: "Ghalib is an astonishing poet from India, perhaps the most important poet since Kabir. In The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib, poet Robert Bly and Urdu scholar Sunil Dutta collaborate to bring the delicacy and intensity of Ghalib's poetry to readers of English. This collection of thirty ghazals by Ghalib also serves as an introduction to the ghazal, the elegant and amazing poetic form revered for centuries in the Muslim world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [67]).