Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world\'s whole heart.
His first book of poems received the Yale Younger Poets prize..
Translator Fady Joudah is a physician based in Houston, Texas.
He has received many international awards for his poetry.
He has worked as a journalist, was director of the Palestinian Research Center, and lived in exile until his return to Palestine in 1996.
Mahmoud Darwish is the author of 30 books of poetry and prose, as well as the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.
And, bit by bit, a tomorrow passing in poems approaches so I carry faraway\'s land and it carries me on the road.
Patiently the river asks for its share of the drizzle.
From Sonnet V] I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place.
Love poems, sonnets, journal-like distillations, and interlaced lyrics balance old literary traditions with new forms, highlighting loving reflections alongside bitter longing.
The Butterfly\'s Burden combines the complete text of Darwish\'s two most recent full-length volumes, linked by the stunning memoir-witness poem A State of Siege.
What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world--his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered.--Naomi Shihab Nye Mahmoud Darwish is the leading poet in the Arab world, an artist and activist who attracts thousands to his public readings.
Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world\'s whole heart
