The wind knocks and other poems/
by Mohammad Alvi ; introduction by Gopi Chand Narang ; selected by Baidar Bakht ; translated from Urdu by Baidar Bakht and Marie-Anne Erki.
- New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 2007.
- 197 p. ; 23 cm.
Poems.
Introdction / Gopi Chand Narang Part 1. (Pre 1963) Empty house -- Search -- Waiting -- Defeat -- Return -- Another bad day -- Don't think any further -- Moonlight -- The city of sleep -- Guilty -- Lamentation -- Crime and punishment -- A child -- Birds and waves -- A village on the way -- the death -- Creation -- Far and near -- Old man -- Ghazal verses -- Ghazal Verses
Part 2. (1964-1968) Who is he? -- In search of the last day -- Son of mary -- A scene -- The Sun -- A new day -- January first -- A lie 76 -- A poster -- The smell of fish -- The new-year sun -- A poem -- Let's make their mummy -- God 83 -- A strange wish -- Ghazal verse -- Ghazal verse
Part 3. (1968-1978) The morning -- The afternoon -- The evening -- The night -- A pome of fear -- Where is God -- God -- You and I -- Dracula -- Frankenstein -- I wish -- A corpse on a horse -- This butterfly is mine -- In the graveyard -- The third eye -- Welcome -- Wherever I go -- The wind knocks
Part 4. (1979-1991) Foreword -- My name -- The fourth sky -- The summer -- Kashmir in November -- The tombstone -- The death -- Birthday -- A poem -- A ghost -- The bread -- Where time stops -- The City -- The afternoon -- The horse of lifer gallops -- I cry at the helplessness -- The seventh storey -- After sixty -- Killer seventy
Part 5. (1991-1994) The naked girl -- The independence day -- Paralyzed hand -- The decision of the body -- This is London -- New York -- Disneyland -- Boston -- Chicago -- Who was he? -- He is still annoyed -- The war continues -- Time -- The photographer -- The autumn
Part 6. (After 1994) The ebb -- reflection -- Thoughts' laughed away -- Mumbai -- Radio -- TV -- Beyond seventy -- Toronto -- Mississauga -- A poem for Sardar Jafri -- A poem for Nasir Kazmi -- Advice -- The thief -- The other leg -- The laugh of a child -- But I do wish --Fishwife -- The pain of the last days -- A poem on the Gujarat earthquake