The Butterfly's Burden

The Butterfly's Burden PDF Author: Ma?m?d Darw?sh
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592418
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish--the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world

The Butterfly's Burden

The Butterfly's Burden PDF Author: Ma?m?d Darw?sh
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592418
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish--the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world

اثر الفراشة

اثر الفراشة PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN: 9781852247881
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Mahmoud Darwish is the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. One of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, he is also a prominent spokesperson for human rights who has spent most of his life in exile.

If I Were Another

If I Were Another PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466884223
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language—lyrical and tender—helped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living metaphor for the universal experiences of exile, loss, and identity. The poems in this collection, constructed from the cadence and imagery of the Palestinian struggle, shift between the most intimate individual experience and the burdens of history and collective memory. Brilliantly translated by Fady Joudah, If I Were Another—which collects the greatest epic works of Darwish's mature years—is a powerful yet elegant work by a master poet and demonstrates why Darwish was one of the most celebrated poets of his time and was hailed as the voice and conscience of an entire people.

Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish

Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish PDF Author: Ahmad Al-Ashqar
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0999073702
Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Original poetry by Ahmad Al-Ashqar and translations from Mahmoud Darwish

Mural

Mural PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804297119
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world." –Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. His poems display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish’s later works. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger, Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Journal of an Ordinary Grief PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Winner of the 2011 PEN Translation Prize A collection of autobiographical essays by one of the greatest poets to come from Palestine. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the roots and ramifications of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. Muhawi's own prose and meticulous footnotes are impeccable. An inspired and scholarly piece of research. —Words Without Borders “Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,” writes Mahmoud Darwish. In these probing essays, Darwish, a voice of the Palestinian people and one of the most transcendent poets of his generation, interrogates the experience of occupation and the meaning of liberation. Calling upon myth, memory, and language, these essays delve into the poet’s experience of house arrest, his encounters with Israeli interrogators, and the periods he spent in prison. Meditative, lyrical, and rhythmic—Darwish gives absence a vital presence in these linked essays. Journal is a moving and intimate account of the loss of homeland and, for many, of life inside the porous walls of occupation—no ordinary grief.

Tethered to Stars

Tethered to Stars PDF Author: Fady Joudah
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317317
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos—intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams. Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even the horoscope. His gaze lingers on the interior space of a lung, on a butterfly poised on a filament, on the moon temple atop Huayna Picchu, on a dismembered live oak. In each lingering, Joudah shares with readers the palimpsest of what makes us human: “We are other worms / for other silk roads.” The solemn, the humorous, the erotic, the transcendent—all of it, in Joudah’s poems, steeped in the lexicon of the natural world. “When I say honey,” says one lover, “I’m asking you whose pollen you contain.” “And when I say honey,” replies another, “you grip my sweetness / on your life, stigma and anthophile.” Teeming with life but tinged with a sublime proximity to death, Tethered to Stars is a collection that flows “between nuance and essentialization,” from one of our most acclaimed poets.

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744682
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul. — Elias Khoury The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment… —Haaretz At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language. Darwish’s poems – specific and symbolic, simple and profound – are historical glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people separated from their land.

A River Dies of Thirst

A River Dies of Thirst PDF Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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"Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people . . . lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant—and never anything less than free—what he would dream for all his people." — Naomi Shihab Nye "Catherine Cobham's translations sway delicately between mystery and clarity, giving a rendition of the master's voice that should impress both those reading Darwish's work for the first time and those who are already familiar with it." — Fady Joudah, The Guardian This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish’s last volume to come out in Arabic. River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise—full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish’s musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; in the pages of River, myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing (and often lighthearted) conversation with death, warning that “eternity does not visit graves and loves to joke.”

The Butterfly Book

The Butterfly Book PDF Author: William Jacob Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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