Poem
Nazand Begikhani
At a Happiness Symposium in Wales
At a Happiness Symposium in Wales
At a Happiness Symposium in Wales
A psychologist saidGraveyards may help you feel happier,
visit a graveyard when you are depressed
There is a thin line between life and death, my friend
and I am a graveyard
I am happy to be alive, my friend
After Halabja and Anfal
I am happy to become the voice
of a land
that contains the mass graves of our brothers
There is a thin line between life and death, my friend
There is a thin line between life and death
© 2006, Nazand Begikhani
From: Bells of Speech
Publisher: Ambit Books, London
From: Bells of Speech
Publisher: Ambit Books, London
Nazand Begikhani
(Iraqi Kurdistan, 1964)
Nazand Begikhani was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1964. She has been living in exile (Denmark, France and currently the UK) since 1987. She took her first degree in English language and literature, then completed an MA and PhD in comparative literature at the Sorbonne. She published her first collection, Yesterday of Tomorrow, in Paris in 1995. Her second and third collections were published in K...
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At a Happiness Symposium in Wales
A psychologist saidGraveyards may help you feel happier,
visit a graveyard when you are depressed
There is a thin line between life and death, my friend
and I am a graveyard
I am happy to be alive, my friend
After Halabja and Anfal
I am happy to become the voice
of a land
that contains the mass graves of our brothers
There is a thin line between life and death, my friend
There is a thin line between life and death
From: Bells of Speech
At a Happiness Symposium in Wales
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