June 2013
11 posts
“I could have tasted death for a taste of your tongue,
watching you eat ice cream when we were young.” —
watching you eat ice cream when we were young.” —
Elisa Griswold and photographer Seamus Murphy collected landlays, Afghan folk poems, that are used now by Afghan women as a way to escape their oppression and talk about sex, love, and war.
the poem above is a folk couplet — a landay — an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than twenty million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Traditionally, landays are sung aloud, often to the beat of a hand drum, which, along with other kinds of music, was banned by the Taliban from 1996 to 2001, and in some places, still is.
“I’ve had this feeling before, but oh god I want to marry you.”
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“My body is no way to behave.”
—“All Hooves and Teeth,” Jane Benoit
“Oh touch me, touch me, good woman!
That’s not a scar you feel under my shirt, that’s
a letter of recommendation, folded up tight,
from my father:
“All the same, he’s a good boy, and full of love.” —“A Letter of Recommendation,” Yehuda Amichai
That’s not a scar you feel under my shirt, that’s
a letter of recommendation, folded up tight,
from my father:
“All the same, he’s a good boy, and full of love.” —“A Letter of Recommendation,” Yehuda Amichai
“Cast a cold Eye
On Life on Death
Horsemen pass by” —W.B. Yeats’ epitaph
On Life on Death
Horsemen pass by” —W.B. Yeats’ epitaph
May 2013
18 posts
“
A woman full of plywood
and buckshot, like the pheasant everyone
fought for and nobody ever won
“There’s a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we’d be arrested for it.”
—Beastie Boys’ Mike D in a 1985 interview animated for PBS’ Blank on Blank series.
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