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 Mahmoud Darwish

The Butterfly's Burden 2007 Mahmoud Darwish continues in this collection a search started there at least ten years, on the shores of poetry and prose. But beyond technical concerns, emains his first choice: in poetry, any idea, any thought has to go through the senses, all poetry is primarily oral, and thus music, and arming of human fragility resist the violence of the world.

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? 2003 It is as always, between the most intimate individual experience and collective memory that lies Mahmoud Darwish. In a poem which prolongs the myths of Ancient Middle East but also the great odes of Arabia earlier to narrate Islamic exile, the time suspended, and an irreducible identity rooted in the Arabic language.

Then Palestine 1999 The book includes verse by the exiled Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. French journalist Rene Backmann contributes an historical essay about an Israeli woman's poignant, strained relations with the former owners of her childhood home - Palestinians from whom the house was seized in 1948.

Flowers of Palestine 1997 In those interviews, four of which translated from Arabic and a Hebrew, Mahmoud Darwish tells his itinerary poetic at the same time delivering a testimony of a burning issue on the multiple facets of Palestinian identity.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise 1995 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. His lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary traditions at the same time that he has struggled to open new possibilities for poetry. This collection spans Darwish's entire career, nearly four decades, revealing a wide range of expression and form.

Psalms 1995 Since October 1970, when the first issue was translated, Darwish has become one of contemporary Arab poets the most recognized and celebrated, alongside Lebanese poet Adonis, among others. Written in the first few months of Darwish in Israel, his homeland left in 1971, not without regret or blame.