Mural

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish, Darwish Mahmoud, Rema Hammami
• Assisted by: John Berger (Illustration), Berger John (Introduction), John Berger (Translation), Berger John (Translation), Rema Hammami (Translation), Hammami Rema (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781786630575
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-057-5
• No. of pages: 68
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets