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Translated from the Urdu by Andrew McCord
Published: Thu Oct 15 1992
Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
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In addition to being the greatest Urdu poet of his generation, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, (1911–1984) was a prominent journalist, editor, and leftist.

Andrew McCord is translating poems for a projected book called Heart’s Companion: Last Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. (updated 2002)
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