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not knowing he’s the obscure author she’s been corresponding with

But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer

and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world

What few people realize is that he was originally trained as a landscape painter

Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets (Calico Series, 12) Binding Type:Paperback • Sacred foods in laFive female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war torn country and its diaspora. There are hypnotic, long beards tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black blindfolds; jinn in chadors; and condoms advertised every eight minutes on TV. Interspersing these are tender moments: one poet describes brushing her daughters hair, while another imagines a tree growing at