Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Inspirational & Religious, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Mahmoud Darwish | ISBN: | 9781935744689 |
| Publisher: | Steerforth Press | Publication: | February 29, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Archipelago | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mahmoud Darwish |
| ISBN: | 9781935744689 |
| Publisher: | Steerforth Press |
| Publication: | February 29, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Archipelago |
| Language: | English |
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the 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.
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the 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.
