Divan of Ghalib / Nachoem M. Wijnberg ; translated by David Colmer.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wijnberg, Nachoem M., 1961- author.

Contributor:

• Colmer, David, 1960- translator.

Standardized Title:

• Divan van Ghalib. English

Language:

• Dutch
• English

Subjects (All):

• Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan, 1797-1869--Poetry.
• Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan, 1797-1869.

Genre:

• Poetry.

Physical Description:

172 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, New York : White Pine Press, [2016]

Contents:

• The Beginning 13
• Ghalib 15
• If the King Pays Me 16
• Ghalib and One More 17
• Ghalib and the Angel 18
• There's Not Much I Need to Know 19
• Ghalib and God 20
• Advantage 21
• Ghalib and the Angel of Death 22
• By Heart 23
• Write Down What I Owe You 24
• More and More Freedom 25
• Ghalib and Mir 26
• Ghalib and Hafiz 28
• A Plan 30
• Question and Answer, How We Do It 32
• Too Much, This Much 33
• In the Desert 34
• Fire 35
• In the Desert 36
• The Difference 37
• What's Your name again, the only one who doesn't have any plans for when evening comes? 38
• Traveling to India 39
• A Joke of Ghalib's 40
• Arranging to Meet 41
• A Joke of God's 42
• I Know Enough for a Novel 44
• Smash Something on the Ground 46
• By the Door 47
• When I Hear Shouting I Can Shout Too 49
• Clothes 50
• Difficult, Possible 51
• Giving It Away 53
• Last Year There Were Three of Us 54
• How It Goes 55
• A Storm 57
• Ghalib and Muhammad 59
• Free 61
• Here or There 62
• Also Good 63
• Hey, there's a difference between the chance afterwards and the chance beforehand. Oh, you mean you've done an experiment? 64
• Words 65
• And What We Do Then 66
• Pretty Boy 67
• Abraham and Two Angels 69
• Which Mountain? 70
• Abraham and Isaac 71
• Abraham 72
• Leah Does with Her Tears What Rachel Does With Her Laughter 73
• Joseph 74
• Joseph 75
• Joseph and Jesus 77
• Drinks All Round 78
• Leaving Egypt 79
• Nothing is Mine for Long 81
• Making Money 83
• Later You Can Say You Shook His Hand 85
• In the Distance 86
• Ghalib at Work 87
• Ghalib and His Career 89
• Practicing 91
• Another Angel That Works Every Day 92
• Do You Want to Hear This? 93
• Water 94
• And What Are We Going to Do Then? Can I Write That on the Wall? 95
• How Someone is Made Whole Again 96
• Standing Just in Front of a Wall to Ask Questions 97
• Investigated and Confirmed 98
• Enough 99
• Mirrors 100
• Ghalib and Jesus 101
• Excuse 103
• The Old Man with a Dog 104
• Something Else 105
• Any News? 106
• In Paradise 107
• You Know 109
• Welcome HO Flowers 111
• On this Day a Year from Now 113
• What Kind, of Day 114
• Because Ghalib is What? 115
• Ghalib, would you like to know how India is governed? 116
• The King When It is Already Dark 117
• Waiting 119
• Night 120
• Work for Me 121
• The Last Day 122
• Another Way 123
• Come and See 126
• Ghalib and God 127
• Night and Morning 128
• In the Dark 129
• End of the Night 130
• A Joke of Ghalib's 132
• Ghalib Knows So Much 134
• Victory 136
• Showing What I Am Hoping For 137
• Just Say Yes, I Promise I Will Do All the Work 138
• What an Idiotic Idea, My Being the First to Start Work If I Start in the Dark 139
• Ghalib Thought of This 140
• On a Horse 141
• Desire 142
• Desire 143
• The News of the Day 144
• Exactly that Much 146
• It Would Be a Good Joke If Ghalib Was the Only Good Poet 147
• Another of Ghalib's Jokes 148
• Like This 150
• Desire 151
• Here I Am 152
• Later 153
• Skipping 155
• Bed, Tree, Heart 157
• Letters 158
• Letters 159
• Can You Do That for Me? 161
• This Evening's Question 163
• Giving Up 164
• Asking for Something 165
• Any More Questions? 168
• Bird 169.

ISBN:

• 1935210858
• 9781935210856

OCLC:

923554350