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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry » (1st Edition)
Authors: Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim
ISBN-13: 9780863565243, ISBN-10: 0863565247
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Saqi Books
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Adonis
Book Synopsis
"Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today." Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published - in English or Arabic - and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time.
Table of Contents
| The earth is closing on us | 13 | |
| When the martyrs go to sleep | 15 | |
| We fear for a dream | 17 | |
| We are entitled to love autumn | 19 | |
| Give birth to me again that I may know | 21 | |
| If I were to start all over again | 23 | |
| Is it in such a song? | 25 | |
| A gypsy melody | 27 | |
| We travel like other people | 31 | |
| We go to a country | 33 | |
| We are here near there | 35 | |
| Athens airport | 37 | |
| They'd love to see me dead | 39 | |
| The wandering guitar player | 41 | |
| A gentle rain in a distant autumn | 47 | |
| Slit lips | 53 | |
| Sons of war | 55 | |
| Confession at midday | 57 | |
| Travel tickets | 59 | |
| Bats | 61 | |
| Abandoning | 63 | |
| The story of a city | 65 | |
| Conversation between an ear of corn and a Jerusalem rose thorn | 67 | |
| How I became an article | 71 | |
| The story of the unknown man | 73 | |
| End of a discussion with a jailer | 77 | |
| Eternity | 79 | |
| The will of a man dying in exile | 81 | |
| The boring orbit | 83 | |
| The clock on the wall | 85 | |
| A mirror for the executioner | 89 | |
| A mirror for the twentieth century | 91 | |
| A mirror for Beirut | 95 | |
| Worries (a dream) | 97 | |
| The golden age | 99 | |
| Song | 101 | |
| Prophecy | 105 | |
| Psalm | 107 | |
| The wound | 111 | |
| A woman and a man (conversation, 1967) | 119 | |
| The new Noah | 121 | |
| The seven days | 127 | |
| The pearl (dream - mirror) | 129 | |
| The minaret | 133 | |
| The desert (the diary of Beirut under siege, 1982) | 135 |
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