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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Diaries Translations Translations into English |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Darwish, Mahmoud. A River Dies of Thirst : (Diaries). New York : Saqi, ©2012 |
Named Person: | Maḥmūd Darwīsh; Maḥmūd Darwīsh |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Maḥmūd Darwīsh; Catherine Cobham |
ISBN: | 9780863568336 0863568335 |
OCLC Number: | 795120288 |
Description: | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
Contents: | Cover; Title; 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 himselfA 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; Assassination; Rustling; A metaphor; In the company of things; A shawl made of silk; A sort of loss; A shameful land; Summer and winter; A coloured cloud; A spring passing quickly; Life to the last drop; The butterfly effect; I was not with me; The faces of truth; As if he were asleep. Visible musicThe road to where; The humour of eternity; The indifferent one; The picture and the frame; Snow; An infectious disease; A bed of lavender; Most and least; I am jealous of everything around you; Lose one of your stars; Private meetings; She said to him; A sneeze; In praise of wine; At the top of the cypress trees; Point of view; The mercy bullet; Shyness; Perfection is the same as imperfection; Prickly pear; In the empty square; A short holiday; Fame; If I were a hunter; Nightmare; Iraq's night is long; In Cordoba; In Madrid; High is the mountain; I don't notice; That word; Echo. The second olive treeWillow tree; Right of return to paradise; If it were not for sin; Italian autumn; Two travellers to a river; A killer and innocent; As if she is a song; My poet/my other; A clear sky and a green garden; A single word; The essence of the poem; Satire; On oratory and orators; Half and half; I think; The second line; Higher and further; The canary; On a boat on the Nile; The lonely man's addiction; In Rabat; Description; In Skogås; The exile finds his way; Boulevard St Germain; Things would be different; A life beginning; The hand of the statue; In Beirut; The return of June. If only people envied usFrom now on you are somebody else; From now on you are you; Acknowledgements; Copyright. |
Other Titles: | Athar al-farāshah. |
Responsibility: | Mahmoud Darwish ; translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham. |
Abstract:
In this collection, Darwish writes of love, loss, and the pain of exile in bittersweet poems and diary entries leavened with hope and joy.
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