Intimations of Ghalib: Urdu Poetry Translated by M. Shahid Alam

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Orison Books, paperback

Translated by: M. Shahid Alam

Publication Date: December 4, 2018

Publisher Marketing: These vibrant new versions of Ghalib’s ghazals bring his wit and irreverence, as well as his devotion, to a 21st-century English-language audience afresh. In presenting multiple versions of many of these poems, Alam highlights the tonal complexity of Ghalib’s work and both the limitations and possibilities of translation.

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