I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan by Eliza Griswold

I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

Eliza Griswold with Seamus Murphy

160 pages first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry challenging emotional medium-paced
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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 coup...

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