Why did you leave the horse alone?
By: Mahmoud Darwish ; translated by Mohammad Shaheen
Contributors: Shāhīn, Muḥammad, translator
Publisher: Hesperus Press Limited; Hesperus Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781843915195
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs; Arabic poetry; Translations into English
Description: Since Mahmoud Darwish's death in 2008 his poetic writings continue to be read by an audience in awe. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a collection of autobiographical poetry designed to give an insight into the wider human condition. Darwish's writing explores the meaning of life, identity and the impact of exile. Hailed as the most important Arab poet of the modern day, Darwish's voice has come to represent a generation and the Palestinian people in the midst of the tense political situation in the Middle East. While Darwish explored themes of lost Eden, exile and life after death.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Introduction ; I See My Ghost Coming from Afar; title: I. Icons of Local Crystal ; A Cloud in My Hand ; Villagers, Without Evil ; Night of the Owl ; The Eternity of the Prickly Pear ; How Many Times Shall Things Be Over? ; To My End And to Its End; title: II . Abel's Space ; The Oud of Isma'il ; The Strangers' Walk ; Raven's Ink ; The Tatars' Swallow ; The Train Went by; title: III. Chaos at the Entrance of Judgment Day ; The Well ; Like the 'Nūn; in Surrat 'al-Rahman' ; Houriyyah's Teachings ; Ivory Combs ; Phases of Anat ; The Death of the Phoenix; title: IV. A Room for Talking to the Self ; Poetic Steps ; From the Rumiyyat of Abu Firas al-Hamadani ; From Sky to her Sister, Dreamers Pass ; Said the Traveller to the Traveller: We Shall not Return as ; Rhyme for the Mu'allaqat ; The Sparrow, As It Is, As It Is; title: V. Rain Over the Church Tower ; Helen, What Rain ; A Night Which Flows from the Body ; For the Gypsy, an Experienced Sky ; First Exercises on a Spanish Guitar ; Seven Days of Love; title: VI. Ring the Curtain Down ; The Testimony of Bertolt Brecht before a Military Court; title: A Disagreement, Non-Linguistic, with Imru' al-Qais ; Successions for Another Time ; When He Walks Away.