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

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

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