The Butterfly's Burden

Name: The Butterfly's Burden: Poems
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
SKU: 9781556592416
Price: 1659.00 INR
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Poems

by Mahmoud Darwish

Copper Canyon Press · 2007 · Paperback

A bilingual edition of Mahmoud Darwish's two most recent full-length poetry volumes, linked by the memoir-witness poem 'A State of Siege'. Translated by Fady Joudah.

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The Butterfly's Burden gathers in one book the two latest full-length collections by Darwish, joined by 'A State of Siege', a memoir-witness poem that links them. The collection moves between love poems, sonnets, journal-like pieces and interlaced lyrics, balancing older literary traditions against new forms.

The poems move between loving reflection and bitter longing. Darwish has lived in exile, worked as a journalist, and returned to Palestine in 1996 after years away, and that history runs quietly through the book alongside poems of love and longing.

Fady Joudah translated the work, and this edition is bilingual. Edition note: published by Copper Canyon Press, 327 pages. ISBN-13 9781556592416.