{"product_id":"9781462817733","title":"In English, Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Faiz Ahmed Faiz A Renowned Urdu Poet","description":"This book contains English translation of about 270 poems and quatrains derived from the 8 books of Urdu poetry that Faiz Ahmed Faiz published  from 1941 to 1984, over a tumultuous period of  4 decades.   For helping him and his poetry put in context, the book includes a ‘Preface’,  how other writers viewed  his poetry,  including  his own views on his poetry and how it sought social justice and freedom of speech and action, through his own incarcerations.  This is another effort to bring to English readers poetry from a culturally philologically distant language and culture, and ‘A Word on Translation’ elaborates   the issues involved.  Recent Emergency in Pakistan (November 2007) also showed how relevant his poetry still was when protestors marched around,  one of the slogans being, “Bol” (‘Speak Up’), the title of a poem he published  in 1941.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170200338672,"sku":"9781462817733","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462817733_p0.jpg?v=1763678031","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462817733","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}