Book record
Faces Hidden in the Dust
Ghalib
Translated from Urdu by Tony Barnstone
Faces Hidden in the Dust, by Ghalib, is a Urdu poetry collection from India, translated by Tony Barnstone, published by White Pine Press in 2021. It is an Urdu collection of Ghalib that brings the ghazal's dust, wit, longing, and metaphysical play into English. Ghalib's poems matter because desire is never only desire; it becomes theology, argument, joke, ruin, and the shimmer of a face half seen. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of India; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Urdu
- Country
- India
- ISBN
- 9781945680502