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A River Dies of Thirst

Mahmoud Darwish
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Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935744672

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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.”

In the Presence of Absence

Mahmoud Darwish
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Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781935744658

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Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award “What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity.” —Saadi Yousef “There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish’s poetry.” —Anton Shammas One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish’s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Through these lyrical meditations on love, longing, Palestine, history, friendship, family, and the ongoing conversation between life and death, the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell.

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Mahmoud Darwish
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Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781935744689

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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

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.

Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish

Ahmad Al-Ashqar
Advances in Embroidery Poems with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish Book PDF

Author : Ahmad Al-Ashqar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Palestine
ISBN : 9780999073704

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Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish by Ahmad Al-Ashqar Pdf

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

If I Were Another

Mahmoud Darwish
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Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466884229

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If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

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.

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Mahmoud Darwish
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Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935744696

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Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

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.

State of Siege

Mahmoud Darwish
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Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780815609292

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State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

Mahmoud Darwish (1942–2008), recipient of France’s Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal, the Lotus Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, is widely considered Palestine’s most eminent poet. State of Siege was written while the poet himself was under siege in Ramallah during the Israeli invasion of 2002. An eloquent and impassioned response to political extremity, the collection was published to great acclaim in the Arab world. Munir Akash’s translation, including an introduction exploring the rich mythology of these poems, presents the first book-length, bilingual edition of State of Siege to an English audience.

Haruko/Love Poems

June Jordan
Haruko Love Poems Book PDF

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781800814820

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Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan Pdf

In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love poems is a vitally important modern classic.

Desert Songs of the Night

Suheil Bushrui,James Malarkey
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Author : Suheil Bushrui,James Malarkey
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780863561856

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Desert Songs of the Night by Suheil Bushrui,James Malarkey Pdf

A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories of The Thousand and One Nights, to the powerful verses of longing of Mahmoud Darwish and Nazik al-Mala'ika, this captivating collection includes translated excerpts of works by the major authors of the period, as well as by lesser known writers of equal significance. Desert Songs of the Night showcases the vibrant and distinctive literary heritage of the Arabs. Beautifully produced, this is the ideal book for lovers of world literature and for those who seek an acquaintance with gems of Arab thought and expression. 'Desert Songs of the Night is a wonderful introduction to fifteen centuries of a literature still largely unknown in the West, without which much of our civilizations would not have developed as they have, from the rediscovery of Aristotle by Arab commentators to the lyric poetry of Europe, from the magical world of the Arabian Nights to the modern revolutionary poets of Palestine. Absolutely essential reading for our troubled times.' Alberto Manguel 'At a time when the world is obsessing about violence and bloodletting in the Arab world, this remarkable anthology, which spans 1,500 years of Arab literary genius, is a stark reminder of the untold story we keep missing about the region.' Hanan al-Shaykh

The Line Becomes a River

Francisco Cantú
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Author : Francisco Cantú
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735217720

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NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.

I Don't Want This Poem to End

Mahmoud Darwish,Mohammad Shaheen
I Don t Want This Poem to End Book PDF

Author : Mahmoud Darwish,Mohammad Shaheen
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1566560004

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I Don't Want This Poem to End by Mahmoud Darwish,Mohammad Shaheen Pdf

When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some of which are gathered together in this volume, translated into English for the first time. They include three collections from different phases in Darwish’s writing career, as well as reminiscences by friends drawn from the poet’s final years, and a moving account of the discovery of the new poems in this collection.

Properties of Thirst

Marianne Wiggins
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Author : Marianne Wiggins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416571278

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Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins Pdf

A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a “big, bold book” (USA TODAY) destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream. Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a “magnificent” (Colum McCann) novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country’s past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.

Darwin

Ruth Padel
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Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409075370

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Darwin by Ruth Padel Pdf

In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctuating emotions of Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous ancestor. Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Poetry Award.

The Butterfly's Burden

Ma?m?d Darw?sh
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Author : Ma?m?d Darw?sh
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592416

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The Butterfly's Burden by Ma?m?d Darw?sh Pdf

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

Ghost on the Throne

James Romm
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Author : James Romm
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307456601

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When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world’s greatest empire.