Name: Faces Hidden in the Dust: Selected Ghazals of Ghalib By Tony Barnstone
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Faces Hidden in the Dust: Selected Ghazals of Ghalib by Tony Barnstone

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (1797-1869), known by his pen names Asad (lion) and Ghalib (superior), is the famous romantic and mystical poet of the Mughal Empire (1526-1858) in India. He is the most-beloved and most widely read poet of the Urdu language, the dominant language of northern India and Pakistan that emerged through the blending of Hindustani with Arabic and Persian.

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Ghalib is the Shakespeare of India, the last great poet of the Mughal empire. His poems have been sung in Urdu gatherings for centuries, offering visions of passionate love in a merging of the human and divine. Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw have made them sing in English. -John Balaban - prize winning poet, translator

About Tony Barnstone

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (1797-1869), known by his pen names Asad (lion) and Ghalib (superior), is the famous romantic and mystical poet of the Mughal Empire (1526-1858) in India. He is the most-beloved and most widely read poet of the Urdu language, the dominant language of northern India and Pakistan that emerged through the blending of Hindustani with Arabic and Persian. He is known for the beautiful prose of his letters and in fact he brought about a paradigm shift in how letters were written and communicated during his time. His focus on informal yet beautiful writing, rather than flowery formal prose, was his greatest contribution to the art of writing Urdu letters. He is also arguably the world's most extraordinary writer of poems in the ghazal form (though certain Persian poets such as Hafez and Rumi give him a run for the money). Tony Barnstone is Professor of English and Environment Studies at Whittier College and the author of 19 books and a music CD. He has served as the Visiting Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Bowling Green State University and as the Visiting Professor of Translation in the Ph.D. Program at the University of California, Irvine. He has a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to Pulp Sonnets, his books of poetry include Beast in the Apartment; Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry; The Golem of Los Angeles which won the Poets Prize and the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry; Sad Jazz: Sonnets; and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone, and a chapbook of poems titled Naked Magic (Main Street Rag). He is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose and an editor of literary textbooks. His books in these areas include Mother Is a Bird: Sonnets of Yi Poet; Chinese Erotic Poetry; The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry; Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry; Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei; The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters; and the textbooks Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Literatures of Asia, and Literatures of the Middle East. His bilingual Spanish/English selected poems, Buda en Llamas: Antologia poetica (1999-2012) appeared in 2014. He has also co-edited the anthologies Dead and Undead Poems and Monster Verse. Among his awards are the Poets Prize, Grand Prize of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the California Arts Council, the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry and the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry. His CD of folk rock/blues songs (in collaboration with singer-songwriters Ariana Hall and John Clinebell, based upon Tongue of War and titled Tokyo's Burning: World War II Songs) is available on Amazon.com, Rhapsody, and CD Baby. His website is https://www.whittier.edu/academics/english/barnstone Bilal Shaw is a Kashmiri scientist working in quantum information science who did his PhD at the University of Southern California. In the past he has worked on DNA-based computation and nanotechnology, software architecture, and theoretical self-assembly. He has worked as a scientist in the Analytics department at ID Analytics in San Diego, where he applied machine-learning techniques to build statistical risk models for fraud and credit space and at the meditation app Headspace. He is also an accomplished poet.

Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 3 Ghalib's Life and Times 3 The Religious and Erotic Traditions 7 Ghazals as the Blues 13 Opening Up the Rhyme 15 The Problem with Repetends 19 Rhetorical Play and Wit 20 The Poems 26 Out of Heartfire 28 The Jewel of the Party 29 At This Party 31 The Spell of Desire 33 Murderess 34 Executioner 36 The Idol 38 A Direction in Which to Pray 39 What Comes 41 Seeking a Gash 43 Enough 46 Enter My Dream 48 Thirst 49 A Smaller Miracle 50 Wine Wave 52 Stay Drunk 54 The Empty Cup 55 A Stunned Drop of Wine 57 Then 58 The Betel Nut 60 My Desires Are Legion 62 The Sound of My Own Failure 64 The Accounting 66 Deadbeat Heart 67 Pawned to This Cruel Life 68 She Pawned Her Heart 70 The Dead Lamp 71 Everything Will Be Dust 72 Red Flowers Hidden in Dust 74 Handful of Dust 77 Dust 78 Why Sing the Blues? 79 Why? 81 What We Say 83 Glances Lined with Kohl 85 Kohl for the Eyes 86 Hennaed Feet 87 I Am Human, After All 89 The Stare 91 Rupture 92 The Face in the Mirror 94 More to Say 95 Some Life 97 When the Dead Rise 98 A Footprint in Paradise 99 Be Generous 100 Veil 101 What? 102 The Cure for Life 104 Infected by Love 106 No Medicine 107 Where Is My Heart? 109 Famine 111 A Woundgift 113 Who Cares? 114 Heartgrief School 116 The Desert Sea 118 Wasteland 119 The Traveler 121 Call Down Lightning 122 Lunatic Beggar 123 Madness of the Night of Separation 124 Blood-Filled Eyes 126 A Rose in the Dirt 127 Give Me Lunacy, at Least 129 How Tight Is the World? 131 The Tulip 132 Dew on a Red Tulip 133 Nothing Is What Breathes from Me 135 No One 137 About the Translators: 138

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Faces Hidden in the Dust: Selected Ghazals of Ghalib by Tony Barnstone

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Tony Barnstone

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