Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan AUTH-12313992 Mark Arnold

Mark Arnold

the Majestic

In this sense the book has multiple voices

Kristina thinks she can control the urge

In The Witch's Tongue

Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan AUTH-12313992 Mark Arnold"Load Poems Like Guns is an important book. It gives an eloquent and wrenching witness to voices from another place and another poetry: voices with a unique mix of formal power and personal pain. Eight Afghan women poets are eloquently translated here by Farzana Marie, including the tragic and luminously gifted Nadia Anjuman. This is a bilingual edition; the English and Dari are side by side, allowing us a glimpse of the mysterious and profound