TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rahmany,Mirwais
AU  - Stanikzai,Hamid
AU  - Strick van Linschoten,Alex
AU  - Kuehn,Felix,1979-.
AU  - Devji,Faisal
TI  - Poetry of the Taliban / 
SN  - 9780231704045
AV  - PK6814.5. E54.
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Pushto poetry
KW  -  20th century
KW  -  Translations in English
KW  -  21st century
KW  - Taliban members' writings, Pushto
N1  - “This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed”—cover page; “Afghanistan has a rich and ancient tradition of epic poetry celebrating resistance to foreign invasion and occupation. This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project-uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak, but it is also an important political project : humanizing and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little understood resistance movement that…”—back cover; “Includes bibliography”—(p. 243-247); Contents: About the translations, editors and author of the preface (p. 8)—Acknowledgements (p. 10)—Preface by Faisal Devji (p. 11)—Introduction-Ghazi Portraits (p. 29)—The poems (p. 49)—Glossary of names and terms (p. 215)—Notes (p. 227)—Select bibliography (p. 243)
ER  -