Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Translating Faiz xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Any Lover to Any Beloved 5
7. Any Lover to Any Beloved 9
8. Blackout 11
9. Lament for the Death of Time 15
10. The Flowers Have Gone to Seed 19
11. When Autumn Came 21
12. Be Near Me 25
13. Evening 27
14. Prison Daybreak 29
15. Before You Came 33
16. Spring Comes 37
17. Don’t Ask Me Now, Beloved 39
18. Once Again the Mind 43
19. The Flowers of Love – The Ashes of Parting 47
20. No Sign of Blood 49
21. Prison Meeting 51
22. Love’s Captives 55
23. Elegy 59
24. You Tell Us What to Do 63
25. If You Look at the City from Here 67
26. The Hour of Faithlessness 71
27. Tonight There Is No One 75
28. Solitary Confinement 77
29. It Is as Though Nothing Exists Anymore 79
30. If My Suffering Found a Voice 83
31. Evening Be Kind 85
32. Paris 89
33. I Made Some Love; I Did Some Work 91
34. My Visitors 93
35. The War Cemetery in Leningrad 95
36. Landscape 97
37. Solitude 99
38. Our Relationship 101
39. Don’t Look at Them 103
40. In Your Eyes and Mine 107
41. Three Quatrains 111
42. We Were Commanded by This Heart 113
43. A Scene 115
44. The Slave 117
45. The Tyrant 119
46. Travelogue 123
47. Battleground 125
48. Why Talk about the Day? 127
49. The Day Death Comes 131
50. The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation 135
51. Backmatter 137