Leyla Aliyeva’s book of selected poems published

The book of poems “Selected ones”, which contains a collection
of selected poems by famous Azerbaijani poetess Leyla Aliyeva, was
published.

The book begins with remarks from the poetess, in which she says
“Many people associate my poetry with my emotions and mood, and
think that my poems are very sad. In fact, most of those poems are
not about me. Most of them express the views, state, and excitement
of the human soul in general. I believe that poems were sent to me
by God. I can hear the lines…” includes such series of verses as
“Motherland”, “What is life, what is death”, “Where are you, good
man of the world?”, “Give me strength, God!”, “Let me go and cry a
little”, “Come back in another life”.

Academician Nizami Jafarov is the author of the foreword to the
book, which covers eternal themes such as homeland, life, mercy,
death, and love, while the translators of the poems are People’s
Writer Afag Masud, poet and translator Salam Sarvan, and the editor
is writer-translator Yashar Aliyev.

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