BALOCHI Literature
of the best known, the following may serve, in addition to those mentioned above: ʿAbbâs ʿAlî Zîmî, short stories, poems; Abdul Qâdîr Nûrî, short stories; Ahmad zahîr, poems, essays, b. 1944; Atâ Šâd, poems, b. 1939; Sayyed Hâšemî, essays, poems, novels, 1926– 80; Mohammad Ashâq Samîm, poems, b. 1923; Murâd Sâhir, poems, b. 1927; Ne’mat-Allâh Gičkî, essays, short stories; Sûrat Khan Marî, short stories, essays. For a much more complete list, see Jahani 1989.
5. Miscellaneous verse
This category of poetry does not strictly qualify as literature, but it is worth presenting a short list and description of what has been published:
songs –
– Hâlô , a marriage song sung during the three days of preparation of the bride for the ceremony, usually sung by one woman singer, and interspersed with choruses by other women.
- Laylarî (laylô), a girls’ song.
-Nâzînk , a girls’ love song.
-Môrô , a love song sung by men or women, sometimes with accompaniment
-Lîkô , perhaps the best known, a work or travel song.
-Zahirôk , a song of separation, yearning and homesickness.
-Môdag , an elegy, sung by women mourners (modakašš ) at a wake. (Examples of all these are to be found in Barker and Mengal 1969 II, pp. 328– 49; all are in Raxšânî.)
-Dastânag , a short song sung with the accompaniment of the nar flute (see Dames 1907, no. LXIII, with remarks in Vol I, pp. 184– 85).
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