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Unfortunately, it was paradise : selected poems /

"Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. He is a living legend whose lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's olde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd (Autor)
Otros Autores: ʻAkash, Munīr (Traductor, Editor ), Forché, Carolyn (Traductor, Editor ), Antoon, Sinan, 1967- (Traductor, Editor ), El-Zein, Amira (Traductor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Foreword.
  • From Fewer roses (1986): I will slog over this road
  • Another road in the road
  • Were it up to me to begin again
  • On this earth
  • I belong there
  • Addresses for the soul, outside this place
  • Earth presses against us
  • We journey towards a home
  • We travel like all people
  • Athens airport
  • I talk too much
  • We have the right to love Autumn
  • The last train has stopped
  • On the slope, higher than the sea, they slept
  • He embraces his murderer
  • Winds shift against us
  • Neighing on the slope
  • Other barbarians will come
  • They would love to see me dead
  • When the martyrs go to sleep
  • The night there
  • We went to Aden
  • Another Damascus in Damascus
  • The flute cried
  • In this hymn.
  • From I see what I want to see (1993): The hoopoe.
  • From Why have you left the horse alone? (1995): I see my ghost coming from afar
  • A cloud in my hands
  • The kindhearted villagers
  • The owl's night
  • The everlasting Indian fig
  • the lute of Ismael
  • The strangers' picnic
  • The raven's ink
  • Like the letter "n" in the Qur'an
  • Ivory combs
  • The death of the phoenix
  • Poetic regulations
  • Excerpts from the byzantine odes of Abu Firas
  • The dreamers pass from one sky to another
  • A rhyme for the odes (Mu'allaqat)
  • Night that overflows my body
  • The gypsy woman has a tame sky.
  • From A bed for the stranger (1999): We were without a present
  • Sonnet II
  • The stranger finds himself in the stranger
  • The land of the stranger, the serene land
  • Inanna's milk
  • Who am I, without exile?
  • Lesson from the Kama Sutra.
  • Mural (2000): Mural.
  • Three poems (before 1986): A soldier dreams of white tulips
  • As fate would have it
  • Four personal addresses.
  • Glossary.