Selected Poems

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INTRODUCTION
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FROM Birds Without Wings Acre 1960
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The Festival the
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About the author (1973)

Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on March 15, 1941. He was considered the Palestinian national poet and won numerous awards for his work including the 1969 Lotus Prize, the 1983 Lenin Peace Prize, and the 2001 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultral Freedom. His best known work was Identity Card (1964). He also edited the journal Al Karmel and wrote the Palestinian declaration of independent statehood. He died from complications of heart surgery on August 9, 2008.

Bibliographic information

TitleSelected Poems
Carcanet Press. [Publications]
AuthorMaḥmūd Darwīsh
Translated byIan Wedde, Fawwāz Ṭūqān
PublisherCarcanet Press, 1973
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedOct 23, 2007
ISBN0856350656, 9780856350658
Length88 pages
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Literary Criticism / African
Poetry / General
  
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