Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence
(2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2025). Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence. History and Anthropology, 36(3), 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662
Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence.