Load Poems Like Guns by Anthology and translated by Farzana Marie

This is poetry from Afghanistan.

Load Poems Like Guns by Anthology translated by Farzana Marie is published by Holy Cow! Press. This is a Book originally written in Dari. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780985981884E12.

Load Poems Like Guns is an anthology of Dari-language poetry, translated and/or selected by Farzana Marie, published by Holy Cow! Press in 2015. The anthology’s title understands poetry not as decoration but as force, a charged instrument of witness and survival. Anthologies are useful because they refuse the fantasy that one poet can stand in for a whole language. The pleasure is in the differences: one poem formal, another intimate, one historical, another wildly private. Read this as a field of entrances rather than a final map. It is a volume for comparison, surprise, and the small shock of realizing that a language never has only one voice.

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