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Title: The Adam of Two Edens by Mahmud Darwish, Munir Akash, Daniel Moore, Mahmoud Darwish ISBN: 0-8156-0710-5 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A second excellent collection
Comment: Unless your interest is specifically political poetry, I recommend reading "Unfortunately, It Was Paradise" before reading "The Adam of Two Edens." The former is slightly more mature poetry and slightly better translated. While the selections in "The Adam of Two Edens" are poems of political exile, Darwish is not a poet of Palestinian radicalism so much as a poet of the human race. In his poetry, he moves easily between cultures that have inhabited Palestine - Mesopotamian, Kurdish, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, Christian. This comprehesive view gives his poetry a wisdom and universalism rarely found in contemporary poetry. His poetry is concrete with subtle surprising use of language: "We have only one dream: / that friendly breezes blow / aromas of Arabian coffee / to our hills surrounded by / summer and strangers." OR "The night is the exact size of my horses."
In an odd way Darwish's understanding of exile is closely related to that of Jabes. Therefore, it seems reasonable to me that Darwish be taught in Israeli schools (see editorial reviews above). "This is my absence, a master who imposes his laws / on the descendants of Lot / and sees no scapegoat for Sodom but myself."
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Title: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Munir Akash, Carolyn Forche, Sinan Antoon, Amira El-Zein ISBN: 0520237544 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmud Darwish, Ibrahim Muhawi, Mahmoud Darwish ISBN: 0520087682 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature by Salma Khadra Jayyusi ISBN: 023107509X Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani, Barbara Harlow, Karen E. Riley ISBN: 0894108905 Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, Ahdaf Soueif ISBN: 1400032660 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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