The Axe and the Red Rose Garden

An anthology of poems written in memory of Abdul Ali Mazari, the Hazara political leader killed in 1995, collected and edited by Mohammad Jawid. It brings together elegies and tributes by different poets in one volume. The poems are in Persian (Dari). For readers of Afghan poetry and for those who want a literary record of how Mazari has been remembered.

Author: Mohammad Jawid

Original title: تبر و باغ گل سرخ

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