The Storm's Call for Prayers Selections from Shaikh Ayaz

by Ayaz, Shaikh; Farrukhi, Asif; Pirzada, Shah Mohammed

• ISBN13: 9780195790078
• ISBN10: 0195790073
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book shows Shaikh Ayaz as a poet of the earth and the people. He is a thoroughly modern craftsman who is imaginatively traditional at the same time. These translations selected from different periods of his life depict the rich variety and diversity of the artist's work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Translators' Introduction	xi
Things Speak	1	(1)
From the Poet's Prison Notebook	2	(1)
The Dancing Flames	3	(2)
Hiroshima	5	(2)
Whispers	7	(1)
Poem	8	(1)
Babylon	9	(1)
Strange Picture	10	(1)
Haikus	11	(2)
Ghazal	13	(1)
Bird's Eye-view	14	(1)
Cactus and Dew	15	(1)
Bowels of the Earth	16	(1)
Necropolis	17	(1)
Death's Rhyme	18	(1)
Snake-Charmers	19	(1)
Reputation	20	(1)
Posthomous Reputation	21	(1)
Red	22	(1)
A Tree's Thoughts	23	(1)
Poem	24	(1)
Winter Rain	25	(1)
Freedom	26	(1)
To Lorca	27	(1)
The Kingdom of the Heart	28	(1)
Next Crop	29	(1)
Paradise	30	(1)
Inferno	31	(1)
Suicides	32	(1)
The Conquering Ant	33	(1)
Eternal Questions	34	(1)
Poem	35	(1)
Afterlife	36	(1)
Sleep near Juhu Beach, Bombay	37	(1)
My Distant Country	38	(1)
Reflections in the Sindhu	39	(1)
Snakeskin River	40	(1)
Home	41	(1)
War Crime	42	(1)
Cursing the Sun	43	(1)
Death by Hanging	44	(1)
Deer Hunter	45	(1)
Mirrors of Time	46	(1)
Poem	47	(1)
Moonstruck	48	(1)
A Poet's Age	49	(1)
Heavenly Flames	50	(1)
Bird	51	(1)
Sweating it out in Sukkur	52	(1)
Night Train on Sukkur Bridge	53	(1)
Shakespeare Sin'd	54	(1)
Makli before the Storm	55	(1)
The Final Shore	56	(1)
The Shadow of a Bird's Flight	57	(1)
The Old Man's Meanings	58	(1)
Agni	59	(1)
Channels	60	(1)
Likeness	61	(1)
Rain and Thunder	62	(1)
Conversation with a River-worshipper	63	(1)
Write	64	(1)
The Sea's Anger	65	(1)
The Sea and Man	65	(1)
Blurred Vision	66	(1)
Trees and Stones	67	(1)
Beggar	68	(1)
Railroad	69	(1)
Poem	70	(1)
The Barren Heart	71	(1)
The Other Woman	72	(1)
Footsteps to the Sea	73	(1)
Fragrance and Sawdust	74	(1)
Birdcalls	75	(1)
Thinking of Manno	76	(1)
The Storm's Call for Prayers	77	(1)
At the Sea-rock	78	(1)
On Board	79	(1)
A Loss of Hair	80	(1)
Not Me	81	(1)
Chameleon in the Fort	82	(1)
What the Jackal Doesn't Know	83	(1)
Picturing Sindh	84	(1)
Dust of Ages	85	(1)
Horse-rider	86	(1)
Dictator	87	(1)
All That Remains	88	(1)
`Here Sleeps...'	89	(1)
Heart and Rose	90	(1)
A Day in My Life	91	(2)
To a Sindhi Woman Poet	93	(1)
Sunflower Fields	94	(1)
Poem	95	(1)
Wa'i	96	(1)
Wa'i: Landscape and Rainbow	97	(1)
Wa'i	98	(1)
Wa'i	99	(1)
Wa'i	100	(1)
Wa'i	101	(1)
Untitled	102	(1)
Untitled	102	(1)
Untitled	102	(1)
Covenant with the Earth	103	(1)
Dust	104	(2)
Towards the End	106	(1)
Farewell to the Earth	107	(1)
His Last Will and Testament	108	(1)
Written for his Gravestone	109	(1)
Black-out in the Prison Cell	110	(1)
Glossary	111	(4)
Sources	115