Book record
I Am the Beggar of the World
Anthology
Translated from Pashto by Eliza Griswold
I Am the Beggar of the World is an anthology translated by Eliza Griswold from Pashto, gathering Pashto-language poetry from Afghanistan through an anthology of Pashto women's landays, where brevity, danger, and oral tradition carry enormous force. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet's private weather. The better entrance is through beggar, world, women, and the couplet as a small vessel for survival and defiance. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. I Am the Beggar of the World belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Afghan Pashto poetry a necessary collective presence shaped by wit, grief, courage, and song. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- Pashto
- Country
- Afghanistan
- ISBN
- 9780374191870