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Archipelago Books

A River Dies of Thirst: Journals

A River Dies of Thirst: Journals

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

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This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish’s last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish’s musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and often lighthearted conversation with death. A River Dies of Thirst is a collection of quiet revelations,

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Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9780981955711
Pages: 153
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Praise

Mahmoud Darwish [is] the truly great poet of the Palestinian people, their traditions and experiences. It is through the poetry of Darwish that ones learns what it meant, and still means, to be a Palestinian with cultural roots that reach far back in time...he fashioned a new literary Arabic that merged vernacular idioms with the classic language. His Arabic gave voice to the Palestinians who had been driven from their homeland, and with this voice Darwish created poetry of the highest order by any standard. He speaks for his people, but like all great poets he speaks for every human being.
—G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books

Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines.
—The Village Voice

Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul.
—Elias Khoury

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