I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan womenBecause my love’s American,blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form...
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An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan womenBecause my love’s American,blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than20 million Pashtun wo
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780374535186 (0374535183)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
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