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"How to be a poet in the midst of chaos?" asked in 2004, the American anthropologist Whitney Azoy. He continued: "The work of Khalili answers this question, illustrating the Afghan proverb that considerable pressure may, on occasion, transforming pieces of coal into diamonds."

From the mid-twenties to Khalili's death in 1987, one of them to the Persian-speaking world called "the poet of the East poets", inspired mystics, lovers of poetry, songs and lamentations Afghan warriors.

Yet they are, to date, virtually inaccessible to Western audiences. This book, devoted to the heart of the Divan Khalili, therefore fills a major gap.

INFORMATION ON THE WORK
Title: "RUBAIYAT AND OTHER POEMS"
Author Khalilullah Khalili
Publisher: The Inventory, Paris, March 2012
French / Persian bilingual edition (Afghanistan)
Translated, presented and annotated by John Paul and Anita kowaliski Bayandorian.
Illustrated in color by Anita Bayandorian.
Contains recording on CD to MP3 playback poems into Dari by Massoud Khalili son of the poet and Persian Anita Bayandorian