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Nazand Begikhani
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I walked in the land of soulsAnd in the distance
I saw myself
a watery sky
full of darting little fishes
I went on
beyond things
beyond words
beyond the body
beyond the wind
Then I came across myself
© 2006, Nazand Begikhani
From: Bells of Speech
Publisher: Ambit Books, London
Translated from the Kurdish by the author
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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I walked in the land of soulsAnd in the distance
I saw myself
a watery sky
full of darting little fishes
I went on
beyond things
beyond words
beyond the body
beyond the wind
Then I came across myself
From: Bells of Speech
Translated from the Kurdish by the author
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