Daybreak Writings on Faiz

Daybreak: Writings on Faiz was initiated as a project of the Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to mark the Faiz Ahmed Faiz centenary. The book brings together articles and essays on Faiz by British, American, Russian, Indian, and Pakistani writers along with Faiz's poems rendered into English by thirteen translators. Two of Faiz's interviews sum up the poet's own views on art, literature, and the artist. Ranging from purely critical writings to reminiscences and memoirs, the collection provides a comprehensive overview of the poet's persona, his work, and the major happenings that influenced and shaped his literary career. The book is compiled as a tribute to Faiz and will be significant because this represents the first time such diverse material in English has been collected in a single volume.

Yasmeen Hameed, Writer in Residence, Lahore University of Management Sciences


Yasmeen Hameed has over twenty five years of experience in the fields of education, literature, and the arts. She is Writer in Residence at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where she is responsible for designing and teaching courses in Urdu Literature. She also manages the Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature at LUMS.

She has authored five books of poetry in Urdu. She has edited and translated Pakistani Urdu Verse, An Anthology (Oxford University Press 2010) introducing sixty-three Urdu poets of the post-Iqbal period. She was Guest Editor of Pakistani Literature (English), published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad, and has edited eight volumes of the journal, including two volumes of a special issue on women writers from Pakistan.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Introduction to 'Poems by Faiz'
'Poetry's Theme' translated by Victor G. Kiernan
Victor. G. Kiernan
2. Faiz and the Classical Ghazal
'Ghazal' translated by Agha Shahid Ali
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
3. Poetry, Politics and Pakistan
'A Few Days More' translated by Daud Kamal
Ralph Russell
4. Tradition and Innovation in Faiz Ahmed Faiz
'My Heart, Fellow Traveller' translated by Waqas Khwaja
Gopi Chand Narang
5. Another Adolescence: The Prison Poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
'We' translated by C. M. Naim and Carlo Coppola
Carlo Coppola
6. The Language of Faiz and his English Translators
'Prison Daybreak' translated by Naomi Lazard
Carlo Coppola
7. Faiz's Legacy-Love and Revolution
'The Meeting' translated by Yasmeen Hameed
Safdar Mir
8. Translating Faiz
'If you Look at the City from Here' translated by Naomi Lazard
Naomi Lazard
9. Poet and the Modern Age
'Visitors' translated by Daud Kamal
Rimma Kazakova
10. Faiz and his Poetry Today
Palestinians Martyred in Foreign Lands' translated by Mahmood Jamal
Maryam Salganik
11. The Sky, the Road, the Glass of Wine: On Translating Faiz
'We who were Killed in Half-lit Streets,' translated by C.M. Naim and Carlo Coppola
Frances Pritchett
12. Introduction. The Rebel's Silhouette: Translating Faiz Ahmed Faiz
'Evening' translated by Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali
13. Faiz and the Soviet Union
'And then Spring Came' translated by Shoaib Hashmi
Ludmila Vassilyeva
14. Freedom Unbound: Faiz's Prison Call
'Dedication' translated by Riz Rahim
Ayesha Jalal
15. Towards a Lyric History of India
'Two Loves' translated by Victor G. Kiernan
Aamir R. Mufti
16. Faiz Ahmed Faiz and N. M. Rashed -A Comparative Analysis
'On my Return from Dhaka' translated by Agha Shahid Ali
A. Sean Pue
17. Let them Snuff out the Moon: Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Prison Lyrics in Dast-e Sab?
'Freedom's Dawn' translated by Baidar Bakht and Kathleen Grant Jaeger
Ted Genoways
18. Faiz gave us the Living Word notes from a lecture
'In your Ocean Eyes' translated by Shiv Kumar
Karrar Husain
19. Poets (Socialists)excerpt
'Last Night your Lost Memory' translated by Mahmood Jamal
M. Sadiq
20. Faiz
'Any Lover to Any Beloved ' translated by Naomi Lazard
Alys Faiz
21. A Life Devoted to Peace
'To the Rival' translated by Victor G. Kiernan
Mirza Hasan Askari
22. Faiz in London'
Gently' translated by Shoaib Hashmi
Khalid Hasan
23. A Conversation with Faiz
'Go forth into the Streets Today in your Fetters' translated by Waqas Khwaja
Muzaffar Iqbal
24. An Interview with Faiz
Tahir Mirza