The wailing song

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Origins 25
5. I Aesthetics of the Revolution
6. The roses and the dictionary 31
7. To Najib Mahfuz 33
8. Mona Lisa 35
9. The eternal fire 39
10. II Elegies
11. The mouth of the well 47
12. Kafr Qasim 49
13. Jaffa 51
14. A refugee 53
15. On the trunk of an olive tree 55
16. A homeland 59
17. Victim number 18 63
18. My sad city 67
19. In the deserts of exile 69
20. A national hymn 73
21. Dearest Love II 77
22. The moon eighteen years later 83
23. Chasing the Trojan horse 85
24. The man with the green shadow 89
25. Eytan in the steel trap 95
26. III Love of Palestine
27. Concerning hopes 101
28. To a cloud 103
29. To Jerusalem 105
30. The wandering reed 107
31. Cigarettes 111
32. The wailing song 113
33. Love Palestinian-style 117
34. A Lover from Palestine 121
35. Mayy and other primitive things 129
36. On one single face 137
37. IV Steadfastness
38. To my grandfather 145
39. My father 147
40. The impossible 151
41. No! 155
42. Awaiting the return 157
43. The unruly horse 159
44. The fire of the maji 163
45. Three poems to Palestine 165
46. Joseph 169
47. The path of affection 173
48. The crucified one 177
49. At zero hour 179
50. V Resistance
51. Letter from a prison camp 185
52. The prison 187
53. I clasp your hands 191
54. The bridge of return 193
55. The man who visited death 195
56. Blessed be that which has not come! 197
57. Promises from al-'Asifah (The Storm) 207
58. God was a soldier behind the barricades of Damascus 209
59. VI Victory
60. The thunderbird 217
61. A love poem to my aunt-a name pursued 219
62. The seagull and the negation of the negation 223
63. Notes 225
64. An Endless Song 227
65. Biographic Notes 231
66. Palestinian Poetry: A Selected Bibliography 241
67. Index 247
68. Darwish's and al-Qasim's Poems Arranged According to Dates of Publication 248
69. Biographical Note on Editor 249
70. Biographical Note on Illustrator 249