Mural
Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile and loss. His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works, his long masterpiece "Mural," a contempla…
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- Full title :Mural / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated by Rema Hammami and John Berger ; with an introduction by John Berger.
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Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile and loss. His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works, his long masterpiece "Mural," a contemplation of his life and work written following life-threatening surgery, and his last poem, "The Dice Player," which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger, Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Verso
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
Notes
First published by Verso in 2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:68 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1786630575, 9781786630575
- oclc:ocn957133810
- LC Classification:PJ7820.A7
- Dewey Decimal:892.716
Table of Contents
Mural -- The dice player.
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