Faiz
Subtitle: a wailing nightingale : Urdu poems
By: translated by Khalid Hameed Shaida
Contributors: Shaida, Khalid Hameed
Publisher: K.H. Shaida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Friendswood, TX]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781463578886
Subjects: Translations into English; Urdu poetry; Urdu Ghazals
Other titles: Wailing nightingale
Work titles: Poems
Description: These 104 poems establish Faiz as a great lyricist who embraced traditional motifs and subjects with a passion and proclivity for verse that explores the natural and illusory qualities of love. Yet Faiz was a tortured man who loved beauty, but found himself surrounded by the pain, sorrow, poverty, bloodshed, and tears of daily life in post-Colonial Pakistan. It is in this dynamic counterpoise that Faiz's artistry becomes manifest, mixing the good, the bad and the ugly in a delightful manner. --P. [4] of cover.