Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Arabic Edition)
by Mahmoud Darwish
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Author: Mahmoud DarwishTranslator: Jeffrey Sacks
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Arabic (Original Language); Arabic (Published)
Published: 2006-02-01
ISBN: 0976395010
Number of pages: 197
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Book Reviews of Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Arabic Edition)
Book Review: Poetry as if one were timeless and in a trance
Summary: 5 Stars
Years ago, a friend from Palestine recommended the works of Mahmoud Darwish. The local university didn't have any of his books on hand and at the time, there were other concerns in my life, things going on that made searching out good poetry difficult - school, work, other studies.
(It was the same friend who introduced me to Sufism and for that I am eternally grateful...)
Recently I picked up this book, remembering my friend's recommendation.
From the first page onward, from the first poem, I was drawn away into another world. I found these poems to have a stillness about them, a mournful but organic quiet. I can't really explain the impact... it was like this seed of beauty, long dormant, something unexpected, began to take shape with the discovery of this book. It was like discovering a new way of thought and looking at the wonder of the world. Reading this book I felt at times without time, stirred up into a trance. I guess it left me a little drunk.
My personal favourite poems of this collection:
"Poetic Arrangements"
"The Phases of Anat"
"From One Sky to Another, Dreamers Pass"
"Helen, What a Rain"
"Night Overflowing the Body"
I think my favourite line would have been:
"...We rise and dance until the/setting sun bleeds upon your feet..."
I'm sure if you love poetry, especially the poetry outside of the well-established Canons of England and the United States (still can't stand Merwin and Lowell...reading those two is like getting your heart sandblasted with boredom... I tell ya...) then you'll love Darwish.
Summary of Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Arabic Edition)
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish?s interlinked poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. The collection?widely considered his chef-d?oeuvre?is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to the Arabic language and his displaced people. Darwish?s poems?specific and symbolic, simple and profound?are historical glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people separated from their land.
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