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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? - The Poetry Shop

Archipelago Books

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Archipelago Books
ISBN:
9780976395010
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
197
Authors:
Mahmoud Darwish
Published Date:
2006-08-01
Language:
English
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About Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) was born in Al-Birwa, a village in Mandatory Palestine destroyed in 1948. He became the national poet of Palestine and one of the most widely translated Arab poets of the twentieth century. His poetry collections include A Lover from Palestine (1966) and Unfortunately, It Was Paradise (2003), a volume of selected poems in English translation. His prose memoir Memory for Forgetfulness, on the 1982 siege of Beirut, appeared in Arabic in 1987. He served on the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and edited the literary journal Al-Karmel. He received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1983 and the Prince Claus Award in 2004.

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