Mural
Mahmoud Darwish, John Berger, Rema Hammami, John Berger
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Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781804297117
- Published:
- 23 Apr 2024
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 80 pages - 198 x 129mm
- Availability:
- Available
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Mural is the testimony of one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the unofficial laureate of Palestine. 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 and exile. 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.
A major new translation of remarkable, late poems by the great Palestinian poet
Al Rabweh by John Berger Mural The Dice Player Notes on the text
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 Peace Prize and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom.