{"product_id":"i-am-the-beggar-of-the-world-9780374535186","title":"I Am the Beggar of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eI Am the Beggar of the World\u003c\/i\u003e presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause my love''s American,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eblisters blossom on my heart.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk coupleta \u003ci\u003elanday\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, lovethese are the subjects of \u003ci\u003elandays\u003c\/i\u003e, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that they make no attempts to be literary. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Facebook to drone strikes to the songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, \u003ci\u003elandays\u003c\/i\u003e reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. With the U.S. withdrawal in 2014 looming, th\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862576070999,"sku":"9780374535186","price":14.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/i-am-the-beggar-of-the-world-9780374535186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}