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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Berkeley, California :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.