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An edition of Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (1995)

Why did you leave the horse alone?

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Since Mahmoud Darwish's death in 2008 his poetic writings continue to be read by an audience in awe. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a collection of autobiographical poetry designed to give an insight into the wider human condition. Darwish's writing explores the meaning of life, identity and the impact of exile. Hailed as the most important Arab poet of the modern day, Darwish's voice has come to represent a generation and the Palestinian people in the midst of the tense political situation in the Middle East. While Darwish explored themes of lost Eden, exile and life after death.

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Pages
135

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Cover of: Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
2014, Hesperus Press
in English
Cover of: Why did you leave the horse alone?
Why did you leave the horse alone?
2014, Hesperus Press Limited, Hesperus Press
in English
Cover of: Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
2014, Hesperus Press
in English
Cover of: Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
2006, Archipelago Books, Archipelago
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Why did you leave the horse alone?
Why did you leave the horse alone?
2006, Archipelago Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Li-mādhā tarakta al-ḥiṣān waḥīdan
Li-mādhā tarakta al-ḥiṣān waḥīdan
1995, Riyāḍ al-Rayyis lil-Kutub wa-al-Nashr
in Arabic - al-Ṭabʻah 1

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Table of Contents

Introduction ; I See My Ghost Coming from Afar
I. Icons of Local Crystal ; A Cloud in My Hand ; Villagers, Without Evil ; Night of the Owl ; The Eternity of the Prickly Pear ; How Many Times Shall Things Be Over? ; To My End And to Its End
II . Abel's Space ; The Oud of Isma'il ; The Strangers' Walk ; Raven's Ink ; The Tatars' Swallow ; The Train Went by
III. Chaos at the Entrance of Judgment Day ; The Well ; Like the 'Nūn; in Surrat 'al-Rahman' ; Houriyyah's Teachings ; Ivory Combs ; Phases of Anat ; The Death of the Phoenix
IV. A Room for Talking to the Self ; Poetic Steps ; From the Rumiyyat of Abu Firas al-Hamadani ; From Sky to her Sister, Dreamers Pass ; Said the Traveller to the Traveller: We Shall not Return as ; Rhyme for the Mu'allaqat ; The Sparrow, As It Is, As It Is
V. Rain Over the Church Tower ; Helen, What Rain ; A Night Which Flows from the Body ; For the Gypsy, an Experienced Sky ; First Exercises on a Spanish Guitar ; Seven Days of Love
VI. Ring the Curtain Down ; The Testimony of Bertolt Brecht before a Military Court
A Disagreement, Non-Linguistic, with Imru' al-Qais ; Successions for Another Time ; When He Walks Away.

Edition Notes

Poems.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
892.7/16
Library of Congress
PJ7820.A7 A2 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
135 pages
Number of pages
135

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL43304259M
Internet Archive
whydidyouleaveho0000darw
ISBN 10
1843915197
ISBN 13
9781843915195
OCLC/WorldCat
877846817, 895712077

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