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Title

Unfortunately, it was paradise : selected poems / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated and edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein.

Author

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• ʻAkash, Munīr.
• Forché, Carolyn.

Description

xix, 191 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Darwı̄sh, Maḥmūd, 1942?- > Translations into English

Contents

• Acknowledgments / Munir Akash -- Introduction / Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche -- I Will Slog over This Road -- Another Road in the Road -- Were it Up to Me to Begin Again -- On This Earth -- I Belong There -- Addresses for the Soul, outside This Place -- Earth Presses against Us -- We Journey towards a Home -- We Travel Like All People -- Athens Airport -- I Talk Too Much -- We Have the Right to Love Autumn -- The Last Train Has Stopped -- On the Slope, Higher Than the Sea, They Slept -- He Embraces His Murderer -- Winds Shift against Us -- Neighing on the Slope -- Other Barbarians Will Come -- They Would Love to See Me Dead -- When the Martyrs Go to Sleep -- The Night There -- We Went to Aden -- Another Damascus in Damascus -- The Flute Cried -- In This Hymn -- The Hoopoe -- I See My Ghost Coming from Afar -- A Cloud in My Hands -- The Kindhearted Villagers -- The Owl's Night -- The Everlasting Indian Fig -- The Lute of Ismael --
• The Strangers' Picnic -- The Raven's Ink -- Like the Letter "N" in the Qur'an -- Ivory Combs -- The Death of the Phoenix -- Poetic Regulations -- Excerpts from the Byzantine Odes of Abu Firas -- The Dreamers Pass from One Sky to Another -- A Rhyme for the Odes (Mu'allaqat) -- Night That Overflows My Body -- The Gypsy Woman Has a Tame Sky -- We Were without a Present -- Sonnet II -- The Stranger Finds Himself in the Stranger -- The Land of the Stranger, the Serene Land -- Inanna's Milk -- Who Am I, without Exile? -- Lesson from the Kama Sutra -- Mural -- A Soldier Dreams of White Tulips -- As Fate Would Have it -- Four Personal Addresses.

ISBN

• 0520237536 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520237544 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002068454

OCLC

• ocm49705059
• SCSB-4323310

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries