A Cry in the Wilderness

by Niazi, Munir; Siddiqui, Muhammad Ali

• ISBN13: 9780195793314
• ISBN10: 0195793315
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This selection provides English translations of the poems of one of the foremost poets of Pakistan. It includes an introduction by the well-known literary critic, Mohammad Ali Siddiqui.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
Introduction	vi
Translators	1	(1)
Reveries of an Old man	2	(2)
A Cry in the Wilderness	4	(2)
Doors	6	(2)
Always Late	8	(2)
Moon	10	(2)
A Dream of Paradise	12	(2)
The Night of Changing Seasons	14	(2)
An Evening Among Enemies	16	(2)
Trees	18	(2)
Thinking of Other Universes	20	(2)
The Stained Lights of My City	22	(2)
Night Terrors	24	(2)
Death's Premature Rose	26	(2)
Bird That Flew Away	28	(2)
Time to Remember	30	(2)
New Year	32	(2)
The Bewilderment of the Onlooker	34	(2)
I Want to Make Her a Memory Now	36	(2)
Dreams are Not to Live In	38	(2)
Ghazal	40	(2)
Drizzle on a Drought-Stricken Garden	42	(2)
I Want to Build a Home	44	(2)
The Curve of an Audible Dream	46	(2)
Bengal: Water Kaleidoscope	48	(2)
A Page From a Forgotten Album	50	(2)
Beautiful Thoughts	52	(2)
Monochrome	54	(2)
Thought-Nymph	56	(2)
Images	58	(2)
How I Spent a Beautiful Life	60	(2)
Still Life	62	(2)
Magician	64