Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780976395010
- ISBN-10: 0976395010
- Publisher: Archipelago Books
- Publish Date: August 2006
- Dimensions: 7.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 197
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