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Why did You Leave the Horse Alone
First published in Arabic in 1995
Translated from the Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks
Archipelago Books 2006
25 Jay street, # 203 Brooklyn, NY 11201
www.archipelagobooks.org
ISBN 0-9763950-1-0
Cover Art: Don't forsake the Steed, Tamam Al Akhal
“At once and intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the
Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are communal cries, songs,
and glimpses of he human condition. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? Is a
poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity
bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language. Darwish’s
poems – specific and symbolic, simple and profound – are historical
glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people
separated from their land.” |
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