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9780863565243

Victims of a Map : A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry

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    9780863565243

  • ISBN10:

    0863565247

  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2006-05-28
  • Publisher: Al Saqi
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Summary

The work of three of the Arab world's leading poets, Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis, is beautifully presented here in this bilingual edition.

Author Biography

Adonis founded the prestigious journal Mawaqif, and has exercised an enormous influence on Arabic literature.
 
Mahmud Darwish has become perhaps the best known Palestinian poet in the world.
 
Samih al-Qasim is a prolific writer who published six collections of poetry by the age of thirty.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(3)
Mahmud Darwish
Biographical Note
10(3)
The Earth Is Closing on Us
13(2)
When the Martyrs Go to Sleep
15(2)
We Fear for a Dream
17(2)
We Are Entitled to Love Autumn
19(2)
Give Birth to Me Again That I May Know
21(2)
If I Were to Start All Over Again
23(2)
Is It in Such a Song?
25(2)
A Gypsy Melody
27(4)
We Travel Like Other People
31(2)
We Go to a Country
33(2)
We Are Here Near There
35(2)
Athens Airport
37(2)
They'd Love to See Me Dead
39(2)
The Wandering Guitar Player
41(6)
A Gentle Rain in a Distant Autumn
47(6)
Samih al-Qasim
Biographical Note
50(3)
Slit Lips
53(2)
Sons of War
55(2)
Confession at Midday
57(2)
Travel Tickets
59(2)
Bats
61(2)
Abandoning
63(2)
The Story of a City
65(2)
Conversation Between an Ear of Corn and a Jerusalem Rose Thorn
67(4)
How I Became an Article
71(2)
The Story of the Unknown Man
73(4)
End of a Discussion With a Jailer
77(2)
Eternity
79(2)
The Will of a Man Dying in Exile
81(2)
The Boring Orbit
83(2)
The Clock on the Wall
85(4)
Adonis
Biographical Note
86(3)
A Mirror for the Executioner
89(2)
A Mirror for the Twentieth Century
91(4)
A Mirror for Beirut
95(2)
Worries (A Dream)
97(2)
The Golden Age
99(2)
Song
101(4)
Prophecy
105(2)
Psalm
107(4)
The Wound
111(8)
A Woman and a Man (Conversation, 1967)
119(2)
The New Noah
121(6)
The Seven Days
127(2)
The Peari (Dream--Mirror)
129(4)
The Minaret
133(2)
The Desert (The Diary of Beirut Under Siege, 1982)
135

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