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245	0	0	_aPoetry of the Taliban / _h[Book] / _ctranslated by Mirwais Rahmany & Hamid Stanikzai ; edited and introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn ; preface by Faisal Devji.
260			_aNew York : _b,Oxford University Press, _cc2012.
300			_axlviii, 200 p. ; _c23 cm.
520			_aThe universality of the poetic impulse is borne out by these poems, written by members of and adherents to the Taliban movement. This collection of over two hundred poems draws upon Afghan tradition and the recent past as much as upon the long history of Pashto, Persian, and Urdu verse. The poems offer an unfettered insight into the wider, more human worldview of the Afghan Taliban. The contrast between the severity of their ideology and the long-standing poetic traditions of the cultures they are born into is nothing short of remarkable. Unrequited love, vengeance, the thrill of battle, religion, and nationalism—even a yearning for non-violence—are expressed through images of wine, powerful women, and pastoral beauty, providing a fascinating insight into the hearts and minds of these warriors.Taliban verse is fervent, and very modern in its criticism of human rights abuses by all parties to the conflict. Whether describing an air strike on a wedding party or lamenting, ‘We did all of this to ourselves’, it is concerned not with politics, but with identity, and a full, textured, deeply conflicted humanity. It is such impassioned descriptions—sorrowfully defeated and enraged, triumphant, bitterly powerless or bitingly satirical—and not the austere arguments of myriad analysts that will ultimately define and endure as a record of the war in Afghanistan.
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650		0	_aPushto poetry _y20th century _vTranslations in English.
650		0	_aPushto poetry _y21st century _vTranslations in English.
650		0	_aTaliban members' writings, Pushto.
700			_aStrick van Linschoten, Alex.
700	1		_aKuehn, Felix, _d1979-
700	1		_aRahmany, Mirwais.
700			_aStanikzai, Hamid.
700			_aDevji, Faisal.
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