A River Dies of Thirst
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A River Dies of Thirst

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  1. 168 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A River Dies of Thirst

(Diaries)

About this book

'Lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate and elegant – and never anything less than free.' --Naomi Shihab Nye Mahmoud Darwish was often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. In the summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Gaza and Lebanon, Darwish recorded his observations and feelings in poems, meditations, fragments and journal entries. The result is this remarkable collection, his last to come out in Arabic. At once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance and play, Darwish's musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity. In these pages, myth and dream are inseparable from truth.

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Information

Publisher
Saqi Books
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780863566349
eBook ISBN
9780863568336
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Contents

Preface
The girl/The scream
Green flies
Like a prose poem
If only I were a stone
Beyond identification
The enemy
Nero
The forest
Doves
The house as casualty
The cunning of the metaphor
The mosquito
An eagle flying low
A personal duty
A common enemy
The rest of a life
The colour yellow
If only the young were trees
We arrived too late
Two strangers
What’s it all for?
A talent for hope
I am only him
I did not dream
The pretty girls’ neighbour
How far is far?
He sees himself as absent
He said: ‘I’m afraid’
The roar of silence
A person chasing himself
A longing to forget
A river dies of thirst
The wall
The law of fear
I walked on my heart
Routine
A gun and a shroud
If we want to
Cheated time
Perfection
One, two, three
Empty boxes
On nothingness
My imagination ... a faithful hunting dog
If I were someone else
...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. The girl/The scream
  6. Green flies
  7. Like a prose poem
  8. If only I were a stone
  9. Beyond identification
  10. The enemy
  11. Nero
  12. The forest
  13. Doves
  14. The house as casualty
  15. The cunning of the metaphor
  16. The mosquito
  17. An eagle flying low
  18. A personal duty
  19. A common enemy
  20. The rest of a life
  21. The colour yellow
  22. If only the young were trees
  23. We arrived too late
  24. Two strangers
  25. What’s it all for?
  26. A talent for hope
  27. I am only him
  28. I did not dream
  29. The pretty girls’ neighbour
  30. How far is far?
  31. He sees himself as absent
  32. He said: ‘I’m afraid’
  33. The roar of silence
  34. A person chasing himself
  35. A longing to forget
  36. A river dies of thirst
  37. The wall
  38. The law of fear
  39. I walked on my heart
  40. Routine
  41. A gun and a shroud
  42. If we want to
  43. Cheated time
  44. Perfection
  45. One, two, three
  46. Empty boxes
  47. On nothingness
  48. My imagination ... a faithful hunting dog
  49. If I were someone else
  50. Assassination
  51. Rustling
  52. A metaphor
  53. In the company of things
  54. A shawl made of silk
  55. A sort of loss
  56. A shameful land
  57. Summer and winter
  58. A coloured cloud
  59. A spring passing quickly
  60. Life to the last drop
  61. The butterfly effect
  62. I was not with me
  63. The faces of truth
  64. As if he were asleep
  65. Visible music
  66. The road to where
  67. The humour of eternity
  68. The indifferent one
  69. The picture and the frame
  70. Snow
  71. An infectious disease
  72. A bed of lavender
  73. Most and least
  74. I am jealous of everything around you
  75. Lose one of your stars
  76. Private meetings
  77. She said to him
  78. A sneeze
  79. In praise of wine
  80. At the top of the cypress trees
  81. Point of view
  82. The mercy bullet
  83. Shyness
  84. Perfection is the same as imperfection
  85. Prickly pear
  86. In the empty square
  87. A short holiday
  88. Fame
  89. If I were a hunter
  90. Nightmare
  91. Iraq’s night is long
  92. In Cordoba
  93. In Madrid
  94. High is the mountain
  95. I don’t notice
  96. That word
  97. Echo
  98. The second olive tree
  99. Willow tree
  100. Right of return to paradise
  101. If it were not for sin
  102. Italian autumn
  103. Two travellers to a river
  104. A killer and innocent
  105. As if she is a song
  106. My poet/my other
  107. A clear sky and a green garden
  108. A single word
  109. The essence of the poem
  110. Satire
  111. On oratory and orators
  112. Half and half
  113. I think
  114. The second line
  115. Higher and further
  116. The canary
  117. On a boat on the Nile
  118. The lonely man’s addiction
  119. In Rabat
  120. Description
  121. In Skogås
  122. The exile finds his way
  123. Boulevard St Germain
  124. Things would be different
  125. A life beginning
  126. The hand of the statue
  127. In Beirut
  128. The return of June
  129. If only people envied us
  130. From now on you are somebody else
  131. From now on you are you
  132. Acknowledgements
  133. Copyright