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Paperback I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan Book
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ISBN: 0374535183

ISBN13: 9780374535186

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

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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 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love-these are the subjects of landays, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful...

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