| Author/Contributor(s): | Darwish, Mahmoud; Sacks, Jeffrey |
| Publisher: | Archipelago |
| Date: | 4/12/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
— Elias Khoury
The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment…
—Haaretz
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish’s intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition.
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language.
Darwish’s poems – specific and symbolic, simple and profound – are historical glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people separated from their land.