A River Dies of Thirst

This remarkable collection of Mahmoud Darwishrs"s poems and prose meditations is both lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony and protest and play. "Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance." As always, Darwishrs"s musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. "Truth is plain as day." Throughout the book, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and often lighthearted conversation with death.Mahmoud Darwish (19412008) was awarded the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom in 2001. He was regarded as the voice of the Palestinian people and one of the greatest poets of our time.

Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) was born in the village of al-Birwa, in the Galilee, Palestine. He became a refugee at age seven. He worked as a journalist and editor in Haifa and left to study in Moscow in 1970. His exilic journey took him to Cairo, Beirut, Tunis, Paris, Amman, and Ramallah, where he settled in 1995. He is one of the most celebrated and revered poets in the Arab world. He published more than thirty books, and his poetry has been translated into thirty-five languages. Darwish was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by France in 1993, was awarded the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize in 2001, the Prince Claus Award in 2004, and the Cairo Prize for Arabic Poetry in 2007. Catherine Cobham teaches Arabic language and literature at St. Andrews University in Scotland and has translated a number of contemporary authors from the Arabic, including Naguib Mahfouz, Hanan al-Shaykh, and Fu’ad al-Takarli.

The girl/The Scream	p. 3
Green flies	p. 4
Like a prose poem	p. 5
If only I were a stone	p. 6
Beyond identification	p. 7
The enemy	p. 8
Nero	p. 9
The forest	p. 10
Doves	p. 11
The house as casualty	p. 12
The cunning of the metaphor	p. 13
The mosquito	p. 14
An eagle flying low	p. 15
A Personal duty	p. 17
A common enemy	p. 18
The rest of a life	p. 19
The colour yellow	p. 21
If only the young were trees	p. 22
We arrived too late	p. 23
Two strangers	p. 24
What's it all for?	p. 25
A talent for hope	p. 26
I am only him	p. 27
I did not dream	p. 28
The pretty girls' neighbour	p. 29
How far is far?	p. 30
He sees himself as absent	p. 31
He said: 'I'm afraid'	p. 32
The roar of silence	p. 33
A person chasing himself	p. 34
A longing to forget	p. 35
A river dies of thirst	p. 36
The wall	p. 37
The law of fear	p. 38
I walked on my heart	p. 39
Routine	p. 40
A gun and a shroud	p. 41
If we want to	p. 42
Cheated time	p. 44
Perfection	p. 45
One, two, three	p. 46
Empty boxes	p. 47
On nothingness	p. 48
My imagination...a faithful hunting dog	p. 49
If I were someone else	p. 50
Assassination	p. 51
Rustling	p. 53
A metaphor	p. 54
In the company of things	p. 55
A shawl made of silk	p. 56
A sort of loss	p. 57
A shameful land	p. 58
Summer and winter	p. 59
A coloured cloud	p. 60
A spring passing quickly	p. 61
Life to the last drop	p. 63
The butterfly effect	p. 64
I was not with me	p. 65
The faces of truth	p. 66
As if he were asleep	p. 67
Visible music	p. 68
The road to where	p. 69
The humour of eternity	p. 70
The indifferent one	p. 71
The picture and the frame	p. 72
Snow	p. 73
An infectious disease	p. 74
A bed of lavender	p. 75
Most and least	p. 76
I am jealous of everything around you	p. 78
Lose one of your stars	p. 80
Private meetings	p. 81
She said to him	p. 82
A sneeze	p. 83
In praise of wine	p. 84
At the top of the cypress trees	p. 85
Point of view	p. 86
The mercy bullet	p. 87
Shyness	p. 88
Perfection is the same as imperfection	p. 89
Prickly pear	p. 91
In the empty square	p. 92
A short holiday	p. 93
Fame	p. 94
If I were a hunter	p. 95
Nightmare	p. 96
Iraq's night is long	p. 97
In Cordoba	p. 99
In Madrid	p. 101
High is the mountain	p. 103
I don't notice	p. 104
That word	p. 105
Echo	p. 106
The second olive tree	p. 107
Willow tree	p. 108
Right of return to paradise	p. 109
If it were not for sin	p. 110
Italian autumn	p. 111
Two travellers to a river	p. 112
A killer and innocent	p. 113
As if she is a song	p. 115
My poet/my other	p. 116
A clear sky and a green garden	p. 117
A single word	p. 118
The essence of the poem	p. 119
Satire	p. 121
On oratory and orators	p. 122
Half and half	p. 124
I think	p. 125
The second line	p. 126
Higher and further	p. 127
The canary	p. 128
On a boat on the Nile	p. 129
The lonely man's addiction	p. 130
In Rabat	p. 131
Description	p. 132
In Skogås	p. 133
The exile finds his way	p. 135
Boulevard St Germain	p. 136
Things would be different	p. 138
A life beginning	p. 139
The hand of the statue	p. 140
In Beirut	p. 141
The return of June	p. 142
If only people envired us	p. 144
From now on you are somebody else	p. 145
From now on you are you	p. 149
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