Review
"What if we demolish the ego, dig under the ruins, as Rumi tells us to, andinstead of finding the divine Friend, we find just the ground we're standing on? Ghalib and Robert Bly face this stark possibility with their fine, blended gaze."-- Coleman Barks, "The Essential Rumi""How fine it is to see a new collection of Ghalib brought into English. His ghazalsoffer spiritual and emotional wisdom, scope, self-knowledge, beauty, and a way of leapingfrom statement to statement whose influence on American poetry is already apparent.This is a splendid and needed collection of work by a poet of major significance."-- Jane Hirshfield, "Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry""An invigorating bouquet of ghazals, witty and astonishing and deliciously difficult, from a poet who deserves to be better known in the West--and is bound tobe, after this book." -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, "The Mistress Of Spices"
Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
"How fine it is to see a new collection of Ghalib brought into English. His ghazalsoffer spiritual and emotional wisdom, scope, self-knowledge, beauty, and a way of leapingfrom statement to statement whose influence on American poetry is already apparent.This is a splendid and needed collection of work by a poet of major significance."
