Wayne R. Rusted is a graduate student in the Dept. of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is doing research on Muslim festivals in India. Carolyn Kizer is a well-known American poet who has also been interested in Pakistan, which she visited as cultural representative of the United States several years ago. She has published three volumes of poetry; Knock upon Silence; Midnight Was my Cry; and The Ungrateful Garden. Naomi Lazard is also a well-known American poet, author of Cry of the Peacocks, The Moonlit Upper Deckerina, and Ordinances. Carolyn Kizer and Naomi Lazard are working with Faiz on a new translation of his selected poems, both old and more recent. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) published more than twenty-five books of short stories and sketches and at least two volumes of radio plays. He also wrote a number of film scripts. The play translated here may have been the last he wrote. Muhammad Umar Memon teaches in the Dept. of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published short stories and criticism in Urdu. In 1978 he organized a major conference on Urdu literature, the proceedings of which he has edited and published: Studies in the Urdu Gazal and Prose Fiction, He is the guest editor of a forthcoming special issue on Intizar Husain of the Journal of South Asian Literature. Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810). First there was Mir. . . . Frances Pritchett is currently teaching in the Dept. of South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on Urdu and Hindi qissa literature. She has finished a book on Urdu meters, and is presently working with Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Kenneth Bryant on fresh translations from the ghazals of Ghalib. Linda Wentink is back in Tucson, Arizona, after directing the 1980-81 Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Lahore. She is now finishing her dissertation on contemporary Urdu short story in India and Pakistan. 152