Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession,
exile and loss. His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema
Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works, his long masterpiece ��ural,��a contemplation of his life and work written following life-threatening surgery, and
his last poem, ��he Dice Player,��which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger, Mural is a testimony to one of the most
important and powerful poets of our age.
