The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems
of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Robert Bly (Translator), Sunil Dutta (Translator)
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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.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 66 pages
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Publication Date August 11th 1999
- First Publication 12/01/98
- Language English
- ISBN 9780880016865
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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