In this sumptuous, expansive collection, selections from across the entire career of Mahmoud Darwish, renderer of worlds, are gathered beneath one roof. This volume also features first-time translations of some of the Palestine national poet’s most significant works in English.
Darwish, whose life in exile spanned from the Galilee to Paris to Beirut to Cairo to his final destination, Houston, created poetry of intense beauty and resonance, and in his verses, everyone who has ever been dispossessed finds a voice and a home. In his poetry, the displaced find a home. Collected here is the mark of a master, a range of expression that proceeds from a Palestinian voice, both raging and passionate, and an indomitably resistant human spirit: love poems, lyrics, observations of nature, epically structured myths, glimpses of life under siege and occupation, and ultimately of a life looking beyond this Earth, at the stars.
Everyman's Library's Pocket Poets are pocket-sized hardcovers that feature acid-free cream-colored paper bound in a full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, a European-style half-round spine, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
MAHMOUD DARWISH was born in 1941 in Galilee, Palestine. His family was exiled from their home in the 1948 Nakba; they were considered "internal refugees" and were never granted Israeli citizenship. Darwish studied in Moscow and worked for literary magazines and newspapers in Cairo, Beirut, and Paris. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and was made Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Darwish died in 2008 in Houston, Texas.
For poetry readers, particularly appreciators of translation and diasporic themes; for those urgently called by the genocide in Palestine, many of whom have been educated in the last decade by Palestinian literature; for anyone looking for more Palestinian art.
In this sumptuous, expansive collection, selections from across the entire career of Mahmoud Darwish, renderer of worlds, are gathered beneath one roof. This volume also features first-time translations of some of the Palestine national poet’s most significant works in English.
Darwish, whose life in exile spanned from the Galilee to Paris to Beirut to Cairo to his final destination, Houston, created poetry of intense beauty and resonance, and in his verses, everyone who has ever been dispossessed finds a voice and a home. In his poetry, the displaced find a home. Collected here is the mark of a master, a range of expression that proceeds from a Palestinian voice, both raging and passionate, and an indomitably resistant human spirit: love poems, lyrics, observations of nature, epically structured myths, glimpses of life under siege and occupation, and ultimately of a life looking beyond this Earth, at the stars.
Everyman's Library's Pocket Poets are pocket-sized hardcovers that feature acid-free cream-colored paper bound in a full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, a European-style half-round spine, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
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MAHMOUD DARWISH was born in 1941 in Galilee, Palestine. His family was exiled from their home in the 1948 Nakba; they were considered "internal refugees" and were never granted Israeli citizenship. Darwish studied in Moscow and worked for literary magazines and newspapers in Cairo, Beirut, and Paris. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and was made Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Darwish died in 2008 in Houston, Texas.
For poetry readers, particularly appreciators of translation and diasporic themes; for those urgently called by the genocide in Palestine, many of whom have been educated in the last decade by Palestinian literature; for anyone looking for more Palestinian art.
