

Even as he was surrounded by Israeli tanks. NourbSe Philip (as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng)įrom the Stacks selections from Danniel Schoonebeek and Solmaz Sharif are available near the copier in the library for a limited time. Consider this passage from Memory for Forgetfulness August, Beirut 1982, in which Darwish gives an autobiographical account of the Israeli siege. Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 edited by Mahmoud Darwish A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Librarys eScholarship program. Notebook of a Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire Memory for forgetfulness : August, Beirut, 1982 / Includes bibliographical references.

A former Stegner Fellow, she is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. He received the 2001 Prize for Cultural Freedom from the Lannan Foundation. Her first poetry collection, Look, is published by Graywolf Press (July 2016). Mahmoud Darwish (1941 - 2008) was the author of over thirty books of poems, including Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (California, 1995), The Adam of Two Edens (2001), and Psalms (1994). Solmaz Sharif’s poetry has appeared in the New Republic, Granta, Poetry, and others. Memory for forgetfulness : August, Beirut, 1982 Authors : Mamd Darwsh ( Author ), Ibrahim Muhawi ( Translator ), Sinan Antoon ( Contributor ) Summary : 'One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. From the Stacks is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we solicit authors to wander our library and choose books that have been important to them and/or that they recommend.
