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I Am the Beggar of the World

I Am the Beggar of the World

Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

2014

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Livre de Seamus Murphy et Eliza Griswold · 2014 (États-Unis)

Genres : Poésie, Version originale
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After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost... Voir plus