Author: Trilokinath Raina
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 158
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788126025336
Description
Mahjoor and after, the anthology we are presenting now is the outcome of the collective effort, embracing almost the whole of the 20th Century, i.e. 1930-2000. It was designed originally to be only post-Independence poetry, but that would have excluded the best contributions of the pioneers of the new age, Zinda Kaul, Mahjoor and Azad, which were all written before 1947.
Without them any anthology of the 20th century Kashmiri poetry would be incomplete for the aim has not been mere selection of poems but making the selection as comprehensive as possible.
What is being presented now, when the passion, for translating poetry has fairly caught on, is a collective Endeavour, which has a distinct edge over all the poets rendered into English by only a single individual: it has the freshness of variety and absence of dull uniformity. This anthology is an attempt to introduce the reader to this new and rich harvest of Kashmiri poetry in English translation.
Contents
Preface
Poems
Zinda Kaul
1. Ferry Me Across
2. Ghazal
3. Unpreparedness
Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor
4. Why is my love cross with me
5. The peasant lass
6. Narcissus
7. I offer you my life
8. Freedom
Abdul Ahad Azad
9. Satan’s Complaint
10. Change
11. Ghazal
12. The River
Abdul Ahad Zargar
13. Through disbief to belief
14. You will rue for ever
15. I’ll cradle thee in my arms
16. An arrow pierced my heart
Ghulam Rasool Nazki
17. Rubaaiyat
Mirza Ghulam Hasan Beg Arif
18. Rubaaiyat
Noor Mohammad Roshan
19. Spring
Dina Nath Nadim
20. I will not sing today
21. On the Death of a comrade
22. I Dream of tomorrow
23. Blade of grass
24. Sugar candy and wormwood
25. Incidents
Ghulam Nabi Firaq
26. To the Bulbul
27. Phantoms of the Night
28. The Flight
29. Ghazal
30. Beauty’s Supremacy
Mohammad Amin Kamil
31. Zero Bridge
32. The Bright highway
33. Nilnag
34. Ghazal
35. Your Coming
Rahman Rahi
36. The Fire and the Psalms
37. Ghazal
38. Inklings from the dark
39. The Womb of the Ocean…
40. My love-sick Maid
41. As she shook her jingling skirt
42. Be not averse to my plea, my Love
Vasudev Reh
43. The Anguish
Ghulam Rasool Santosh
44. Bahri Taweel
Ghulam Nabi Khayal
45. At the frontier post
Rashid Nazki
46. The voice
47. The Shadow
48. A Feeling
Ghulam Nabi Gowhar
49. Wisdom
50. Impact
51. Accountability
Muzaffar Azim
52. Poem –I
53. Poem –II
Syed Rasool Pompur
54. Basant Katha
55. To my newborn babe
56. Ghazal – I
57. Ghazal – II
Radhey Nath Masarrat
58. The Liar
Bimla Raina
59. Vaakh
Naseem Shafai
60. Ghazal –I
61. I could never understand
62. A Fork in the road
63. A Story – A Lesson
64. Ghazal – II
65. Ghazal – III
66. Ghazal – IV
End Notes from the Editor