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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
I Am the Beggar of the World Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women — Because 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: ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374535186
ISBN-10: 0374535183
Publication Date: 3/31/2015
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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