Why did you leave the horse alone? / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated from the Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd.

Contributor:

Sacks, Jeffrey.

Standardized Title:

Li-mādhā tarakta al-ḥiṣān waḥīdan. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Physical Description:

197 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books ; St. Paul, Minn. : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, [2006]

Summary:

At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish's interlinked poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. The collection-widely considered his "chef-d'oeuvre"-is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to the Arabic language and his displaced people. 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.

Contents:

Poems. I see my ghost coming from a distance

Icons of the place's crystal

A cloud in my hand

Innocent villagers

The owl's night

The eternity of the cactus

How many times will it be over

To my end and to its end

Abel's space

Ismael's ʻoud

Strangers' walk

The raven's ink

The tatar's swallows

The train passed

Chaos at resurrection's gate

The well

Like the nun in surat al-Rahman

Huriyya's teaching

Ivory comb

The phases of Anat

The death of the phoenix

A room to talk to oneself

Poetic arrangements

From the Byzantine odes of Abu Firas al-Hamdani

From one sky to another, dreamers pass

One traveler said to another : we won't return as

A rhyme for the odes

The sparrow, as it is

Rain on the Church tower

Helen, what a rain

Night overflowing the body

To the gypsy, a well-tuned sky

First lessons on a Spanish guitar

The seven days of love

The curtain falls

Bertolt Brecht's testimony before a military court

A non-linguistic dispute with Imru' al-Qays

Sequences for another time

As he draws away.

ISBN:

0976395010

OCLC:

62509235

Publisher Number:

9780976395010