The True Subject - Couverture souple

Faiz, Faiz Ahmed

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691014388 ISBN 13 : 9780691014388

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1987

Synopsis

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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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book contains English translations of the Urdu poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, MBE (1911-1984) by Naomi Lazard (b.1936). No Urdu poet has won so much international renown as Faiz Ahmad Faiz and he appeals to an audience found world-wide. He was a founder of the Progressive Writers Movement in India in 1936. He suffered a number of terms of imprisonment before his literary reputation earned him some respite from persecution. Faiz oversaw the shift of poetic themes from romantic love to human misery, but the sheer lyricality of his verse won him hordes of admirers across the ideological divide .The translator is herself a poet of renown. Naomi Lazard is a past-President of the Poetry Society of America and has published three volumes of poetry herself, some of which have been anthologized. The poet and the translator worked together closely to produce these translations. This book had earned renown when first published in 1988, but the translator had withheld re-publication till the Faiz Centennial which is now being celebrated. This shall be the most sought after bilingual book during the Centenary celebrations.

Biographie de l'auteur

Naomi Lazard is an American poet and playwright. Born in 1936 in Philadelphia, she attended the City College of New York. She has been Poet-in-Residence atHamilton/Kirkland College and at the University of Montana and has published three books of poetry: Cry of the Peacocks (1967), The Moonlit Upper Deckerina (1977) and Ordinances (1984). Lazard is also the author of the children's book What Amanda Saw. Naomi wrote the screenplay for The White Raven and the play The Elephant and the Dove. She won two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, American Scholar, Harper's Bazaar, Hudson Review, The Nation, Saturday Review, Chicago Review and other magazine and anthologies. In 1992, Lazard co-founded The Hamptons International Film Festival.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691014388
• ISBN 13: 9780691014388
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible