Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

Mahmoud Darwish
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 war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day).

BOOKS BY Mahmoud Darwish

Psalms
A River Dies of Thirst
State of siege Mahmoud Darwish
Why did you leave the horse alone?
The music of human flesh
If I Were Another: Poems
The Adam of two Edens
Selected Poems
The Dice Player
Sand, and other poems
I Don't Want This Poem to End: Early and Late Poems
Don't apologize for what you did
Palestine As Metaphor
Mural Mahmoud Darwish
Bed of a stranger
Now, As You Awaken
Victims of a map
Ward Aqal
Journal of an Ordinary Grief
Almond Blossoms and Beyond
I Don't Want this Poem to End: Writings by and about Mahmoud Darwish
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
In the Presence of Absence

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