A provocative collection of Afghan folk poems

A book like this is a potent reminder that poetry can change the world. In the United States of America, that seems a ridiculous thing to say. If poetry cannot make money, win the Super Bowl, swing elections, or cure cancer, one will be (or so folks assume) hard put to defend it, much less to claim it changes the world. But for those who have been changed, and by poetry, the claim is too obvious to argue - even if it's not always easy to say exactly what poetry does.