Victims of a Map : A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry

, by Adonis, Mahmud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim

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ISBN: 9780863565243 | 0863565247
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 5/28/2006

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The work of three of the Arab world's leading poets, Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis, is beautifully presented here in this bilingual edition.

Adonis founded the prestigious journal Mawaqif, and has exercised an enormous influence on Arabic literature. Mahmud Darwish has become perhaps the best known Palestinian poet in the world. Samih al-Qasim is a prolific writer who published six collections of poetry by the age of thirty.

Introduction

(3)

Mahmud Darwish

Biographical Note

(3)

The Earth Is Closing on Us

(2)

When the Martyrs Go to Sleep

(2)

We Fear for a Dream

(2)

We Are Entitled to Love Autumn

(2)

Give Birth to Me Again That I May Know

(2)

If I Were to Start All Over Again

(2)

Is It in Such a Song?

(2)

A Gypsy Melody

(4)

We Travel Like Other People

(2)

We Go to a Country

(2)

We Are Here Near There

(2)

Athens Airport

(2)

They'd Love to See Me Dead

(2)

The Wandering Guitar Player

(6)

A Gentle Rain in a Distant Autumn

(6)

Samih al-Qasim

Biographical Note

(3)

Slit Lips

(2)

Sons of War

(2)

Confession at Midday

(2)

Travel Tickets

(2)

Bats

(2)

Abandoning

(2)

The Story of a City

(2)

Conversation Between an Ear of Corn and a Jerusalem Rose Thorn

(4)

How I Became an Article

(2)

The Story of the Unknown Man

(4)

End of a Discussion With a Jailer

(2)

Eternity

(2)

The Will of a Man Dying in Exile

(2)

The Boring Orbit

(2)

The Clock on the Wall

(4)

Adonis

Biographical Note

(3)

A Mirror for the Executioner

(2)

A Mirror for the Twentieth Century

(4)

A Mirror for Beirut

(2)

Worries (A Dream)

(2)

The Golden Age

(2)

Song

101

(4)

Prophecy

105

(2)

Psalm

107

(4)

The Wound

111

(8)

A Woman and a Man (Conversation, 1967)

119

(2)

The New Noah

121

(6)

The Seven Days

127

(2)

The Peari (Dream--Mirror)

129

(4)

The Minaret

133

(2)

The Desert (The Diary of Beirut Under Siege, 1982)

135

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Victims of a Map : A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry

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