I Am the Beggar of the World
I Am the Beggar of the World presents 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: the more than 20 m...
I Am the Beggar of the World presents 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: the more than 20 m...