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. Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 edited by Mahmoud Darwish Notebook of a Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire Memory for forgetfulness : August, Beirut, 1982 Authors: Mahmud Darwish (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. A former Stegner Fellow, she is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, Look, is published by Graywolf Press (July 2016). Solmaz Sharif’s poetry has appeared in the New Republic, Granta, Poetry, and others. For Darwish, the siege of Beirut was a climactic moment in which he realized that he is stuck on a perpetual threshold. 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. This essay focuses on Mahmoud Darwish’s exilic experience as depicted in Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (1986).
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