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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

By Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Jeffrey Sacks

By Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Jeffrey Sacks

By Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Jeffrey Sacks

By Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Jeffrey Sacks

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    About Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

    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.

    About Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

    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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Literary Collections

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Archipelago
    Apr 12, 2006 | 197 Pages | 6 x 7-3/10 | ISBN 9780976395010

    Category: Poetry | Literary Collections

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Archipelago
    Feb 29, 2012 | 197 Pages | ISBN 9781935744689

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    Praise

    Darwish is the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people . . .lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate, and elegant – and never anything less than free – what he would dream for all his people. —Naomi Shihab Nye

    A book of nostalgia and love . . . The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment . . . Only a very callused person could read these poems without getting emotional. —Haaretz

    In this definitive Palestinian history, Mahmoud Darwish is turning his personal biography into a modern, low-keyed national epic. In the morning after Oslo, Darwish said “the Palestinians woke up only to find out that they had no past.” But we, the survivors of that mnemectomy, the readers of this Horse, will always know that there are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish’s poetry. —Anton Shammas

    Darwish’s complex linguistic negotiations of deeply contested places, on the earth and in the mind, demand and sustain serious reading and discussion. —Publishers Weekly

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