Table of Contents
Introduction: Mahmoud Darwish's Lyric Epic vii
I See What I Want (1990)
Rubaiyat 4
Take Care of the Stags, Father 9
Truce with the Mongols by the Holm Oak Forest 16
A Music Sentence 21
The Tragedy of Narcissus the Comedy of Silver 23
The Hoopoe 42
Eleven Planets (1992)
Eleven Planets at the End of the Andalusian Scene 57
I On the last evening on this earth
II How do I write above the clouds?
III I have behind the sky a sky
IV And I am one of the kings of the end
V One day, I will sit on the sidewalk
VI Truth has two faces and the snow is black
VII Who am I after the stranger's night?
VIII Water, be a string to my guitar
XI In exodus I love you more
X I want from love only the beginning
XI The violins
The "Red Indian's" Penultimate Speech to the White Man 69
A Canaanite Rock in the Dead Sea 78
We will Choose Sophocles 83
Rita's Winter 88
A Horse for the Stranger 94
Mural (2000) 99
Exile (2005)
I Tuesday and the Weather is Clear 149
II Dense Fog over the Bridge 160
III Like a Hand Tattoo in the Jahili Poet's Ode 171
IV Counterpoint 183
Notes 195
Glossary 197