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Why did you leave the horse alone? / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated from the Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English, Arabic Original language: Arabic Publication details: Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books ; St. Paul, Minn. : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 197 pages 19 cmISBN:
  • 0976395010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780976395010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Li-mādhā tarakta al-ḥiṣān waḥīdan. English
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PJ7820.A7 L513 2006
Contents:
Poems. I see my ghost coming from a distance -- Icons of the place's crystal -- A cloud in my hand -- Innocent villagers -- The owl's night -- The eternity of the cactus -- How many times will it be over -- To my end and to its end -- Abel's space -- Ismael's ʻoud -- Strangers' walk -- The raven's ink -- The tatar's swallows -- The train passed -- Chaos at resurrection's gate -- The well -- Like the nun in surat al-Rahman -- Huriyya's teaching -- Ivory comb -- The phases of Anat -- The death of the phoenix -- A room to talk to oneself -- Poetic arrangements -- From the Byzantine odes of Abu Firas al-Hamdani -- From one sky to another, dreamers pass -- One traveler said to another : we won't return as-- -- A rhyme for the odes -- The sparrow, as it is-- -- Rain on the Church tower -- Helen, what a rain -- Night overflowing the body -- To the gypsy, a well-tuned sky -- First lessons on a Spanish guitar -- The seven days of love -- The curtain falls -- Bertolt Brecht's testimony before a military court -- A non-linguistic dispute with Imru' al-Qays -- Sequences for another time -- --As he draws away.
Item type: BOOKS
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Poems. I see my ghost coming from a distance -- Icons of the place's crystal -- A cloud in my hand -- Innocent villagers -- The owl's night -- The eternity of the cactus -- How many times will it be over -- To my end and to its end -- Abel's space -- Ismael's ʻoud -- Strangers' walk -- The raven's ink -- The tatar's swallows -- The train passed -- Chaos at resurrection's gate -- The well -- Like the nun in surat al-Rahman -- Huriyya's teaching -- Ivory comb -- The phases of Anat -- The death of the phoenix -- A room to talk to oneself -- Poetic arrangements -- From the Byzantine odes of Abu Firas al-Hamdani -- From one sky to another, dreamers pass -- One traveler said to another : we won't return as-- -- A rhyme for the odes -- The sparrow, as it is-- -- Rain on the Church tower -- Helen, what a rain -- Night overflowing the body -- To the gypsy, a well-tuned sky -- First lessons on a Spanish guitar -- The seven days of love -- The curtain falls -- Bertolt Brecht's testimony before a military court -- A non-linguistic dispute with Imru' al-Qays -- Sequences for another time -- --As he draws away.

English and Arabic.

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