In this bilingual edition of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's mature work, Naomi Lazard captures his universal appeal: a voice of great pathos, charm, and authenticity that has until now been little known in the English-speaking world.
Originally published in 1987.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg.
ix*Translating Faiz, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*Any Lover to Any Beloved, pg.
5*Any Lover to Any Beloved, pg. 9*Blackout, pg. 11*Lament for the Death of
Time, pg. 15*The Flowers Have Gone to Seed, pg. 19*When Autumn Came, pg.
21*Be Near Me, pg. 25*Evening, pg. 27*Prison Daybreak, pg. 29*Before You
Came, pg. 33*Spring Comes, pg. 37*Don't Ask Me Now, Beloved, pg. 39*Once
Again the Mind, pg. 43*The Flowers of Love - The Ashes of Parting, pg. 47*No
Sign of Blood, pg. 49*Prison Meeting, pg. 51*Love's Captives, pg. 55*Elegy,
pg. 59*You Tell Us What to Do, pg. 63*If You Look at the City from Here, pg.
67*The Hour of Faithlessness, pg. 71*Tonight There Is No One, pg. 75*Solitary
Confinement, pg. 77*It Is as Though Nothing Exists Anymore, pg. 79*If My
Suffering Found a Voice, pg. 83*Evening Be Kind, pg. 85*Paris, pg. 89*I Made
Some Love; I Did Some Work, pg. 91*My Visitors, pg. 93*The War Cemetery in
Leningrad, pg. 95*Landscape, pg. 97*Solitude, pg. 99*Our Relationship, pg.
101*Don't Look at Them, pg. 103*In Your Eyes and Mine, pg. 107*Three
Quatrains, pg. 111*We Were Commanded by This Heart, pg. 113*A Scene, pg.
115*The Slave, pg. 117*The Tyrant, pg. 119*Travelogue, pg. 123*Battleground,
pg. 125*Why Talk about the Day?, pg. 127*The Day Death Comes, pg. 131*The
Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, pg. 135
