This is more a personal crusade than a recommendation, but I'll throw it out there anyway:
The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry

The reason I'm recommending this book is because it is exactly what it says - an introduction to a poetry tradition many know little about. And I include myself in that number, most definitely. Apart from a helpful, informative introduction, and translations that seem safe from what I can make out, the other real highlight is that for almost all the works in the anthology, the author provides links to his personal favourite performances on Youtube. With many of the poems, I find that the effort of trying to follow them with their Persianate vocabulary is taxing to my limited Hindi, but listening to them being performed as I read along brings them to life and often helps make more sense of them too. So if one wants to try something different, one could very easily do worse than check this out