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The Butterfly's Burden » (Bilingual)

Book cover image of The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish

Authors: Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah
ISBN-13: 9781556592416, ISBN-10: 1556592418
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: Bilingual

Author Biography: Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish is the Poet Laureate of Palestine and the author of the Palestinian national anthem. Author of over twenty books, he was awarded the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American doctor based in Houston, Texas, and is active in Doctors Without Borders. He earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College, and his original poetry and translations have appeared in a wide range of publications.

Book Synopsis

Newest work from Mahmoud Darwish—the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world

	We were missing a present	5
	Sonnet I	11
	Low sky	13
	We walk on the bridge	19
	Your night is of lilac	23
	Sonnet II	25
	The stranger stumbles upon himself in the stranger	27
	A cloud from Sodom	29
	A doe's young twins	31
	Sonnet III	33
	Take my horse and slaughter it ...	35
	The stranger's land / the serene land	37
	Inanna's milk	41
	Sonnet IV	45
	No more and no less	47
	Wedding song	51
	Housework	55
	Sonnet V	59
	Two stranger birds in our feathers	61
	I waited for no one	65
	Drought	69
	Sonnet VI	73
	The subsistence of birds	75
	Maybe, because winter is late	79
	Who am I, without exile?	89
	Jameel Bouthaina and I	93
	A mask ... for Majnoon Laila	97
	A lesson from Kama Sutra	101
	The Damascene collar of the dove	105
	"Here, by the downslope of hills, facing the sunset"	121
	Cadence chooses me	179
	I have the wisdom of one condemned to death	181
	Another day will come	183
	And I, even if I were the last	185
	In my mother's house	187
	Don't apologize for what you've done	189
	On a day like today	191
	Set down, here, and now	193
	If you return alone	195
	I didn't apologize to the well	197
	No banner in the wind	199
	The horse fell off the poem	201
	To our land	203
	And we have a land	205
	Nothing but light	207
	The beloved hemorrhaged anemones	209
	In Jerusalem	211
	In her absence I created her image	213
	Wednesday, Friday, Saturday	215
	Two olive trees	217
	They don't look behind them	221
	They didn't ask : what's after death	223
	Murdered and unknown	225
	The cypress broke	227
	A man and a fawn are in the garden	229
	This is forgetfulness	233
	You'll be forgotten, as if you never were	235
	As for me, I say to my name	239
	Dream, what is it?	241
	Now, when you awaken, remember	243
	The shadow	245
	Nothing pleases me	247
	He's calm, and I am too	249
	Describing clouds	251
	A noun sentence	255
	Say what you want	257
	Don't write history as poetry	259
	What will remain?	261
	I don't know your name	263
	She's alone in the evening	265
	While waiting	269
	If I were another	271
	Thanks to Tunis	273
	I have a seat in the abandoned theater	275
	In Syria	277
	In Egypt	279
	I recall al-Sayyab	281
	"A road that leads to Egypt and Syria"	285
	"I walked on what remains of the heart"	291
	"Standing together beneath a window"	299
	"In Pablo Neruda's home, on the Pacific"	307
	"The Kurd remembers, when I visit him, his tomorrow"	315