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Anna Ziajka Stanton
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Book Title
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Book Description
The poems in this 1995 collection by the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish articulate a dialectic of loss and hoped-for return that is simultaneously relevant to all displaced and exiled peoples, and irreducibly specific to the Palestinian experience. One of the pleasures of this facing-page bilingual edition is that it invites us to read Darwish's original Arabic lines alongside Jeffrey Sacks' womderful English translation, allowing each poem to be appreciated not once but twice.
Year
2024