Last Night --
Don't Ask Me for That Love Again --
Ghazal --
Solitude --
Ghazal --
Ghazal --
Ghazal --
August 1952 --
A Prison Evening --
A Prison Daybreak --
Ghazal --
Fragrant Hands --
Ghazal --
City of Lights --
Ghazal --
We Who Were Executed --
Evening --
Solitary Confinement --
Ghazal --
Poem --
Two Elegies: 1. Appointments --
Two Elegies: 2. The Rain of Stones Is Finished --
Before You Came --
Be Near Me --
Vista --
In Search of Vanished Blood --
The City from Here --
Black Out --
Let Me Think --
The Heart Gives Up --
Stay Away from Me (Bangladesh I) --
Bangladesh II --
Desire --
Evening in Ashkabaad --
Wash the Blood off Your Feet --
On My Return from Dhaka (Bangladesh III) --
It Is Spring Again --
A Letter from Prison --
For Vera --
A Night in the Desert --
So Bring the Order for My Execution --
You Tell Us What To Do.

Born in India and considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a two-time Nobel nominee and winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. His evening readings in Hindi/Urdu-speaking regions drew thousands of listeners. Associated with the Communist party in his youth, Faiz became an outspoken poet in opposition to the Pakistani government. He was also a professor of English literature, a distinguished editor and a major figure in the Afro-Asian writer's movement. This volume offers a selection of Faiz's poetry in a bilingual Urdu/English edition with a new introduction by poet and translator Agha Shahid Ali.