Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh ,
MaḥmūdPublished: University of California Press, 1995
Subjects: Literature |
Literature in Translation |
Middle Eastern Studies |
RhetoricPublisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . .
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