Mural
Mahmoud Darwish, John Berger, Rema Hammami, John Berger
List price £9.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781786630575
- Published:
- 01 Aug 2017
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 80 pages - 198 x 129 x 8mm
- Availability:
- Available
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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.
A major new translation of remarkable, late poems by the great Palestinian poet.
Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008) published some thirty books of poetry and prose; his work has been translated into thirty-five languages. His many international awards include the Lenin PeacePrize and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom.