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Mural

By Mahmoud Darwish

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2017
ISBN
1786630575, 9781786630575
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1462033 bytes)
Edition
Rep Tra
Pages
69\0
Time added
2017-08-10 12:23:11
Drawing;Cartooning;Colored Pencil;Figure Drawing;P

Description

Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile and loss. His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish’s later works, his long masterpiece “Mural,” a contemplation of his life and work written following life-threatening surgery, and his last poem, “The Dice Player,” which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger, Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.

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