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Book

Why did you leave the horse alone?

Call Number

  • 892.71 D228.1 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Languages

English and Arabic.

Publication Information

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books ; St. Paul, Minn. : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, ©2006.

Physical Description

197 pages ; 19 cm

Contents

  • Poems. I see my ghost coming from a distance
  • Icons of the place's crystal
  • A cloud in my hand
  • Innocent villagers
  • The owl's night
  • The eternity of the cactus
  • How many times will it be over
  • To my end and to its end
  • Abel's space
  • Ismael's ʻoud
  • Strangers' walk
  • The raven's ink
  • The tatar's swallows
  • The train passed
  • Chaos at resurrection's gate
  • The well
  • Like the nun in surat al-Rahman
  • Huriyya's teaching
  • Ivory comb
  • The phases of Anat
  • The death of the phoenix
  • A room to talk to oneself
  • Poetic arrangements
  • From the Byzantine odes of Abu Firas al-Hamdani
  • From one sky to another, dreamers pass
  • One traveler said to another : we won't return as--
  • A rhyme for the odes
  • The sparrow, as it is--
  • Rain on the Church tower
  • Helen, what a rain
  • Night overflowing the body
  • To the gypsy, a well-tuned sky
  • First lessons on a Spanish guitar
  • The seven days of love
  • The curtain falls
  • Bertolt Brecht's testimony before a military court
  • A non-linguistic dispute with Imru' al-Qays
  • Sequences for another time
  • --As he draws away.

Subjects

Added Authors

Jeffrey Sacks