"Midnight and Other Poems" is the first full-length poetry
collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian
writer, previously known to English-language readers for his
highly-acclaimed autobiography "I Saw Ramallah" (Bloomsbury, 2004).
Mourid Barghouti has spent many years in exile and his long poem
"Midnight" is a rich montage of images of the land of his birth and
the strong emotional responses to which these images give
rise.Here, anger, frustration and despair are juxtaposed with
yearning and tenderness in Barghouti's powerful and evocative
account of occupation, violence and oppression. The shorter poems
which comprise the second half of the book are, by turns, dramatic
and hard-hitting, contemplative and reflective, and together
present an equally powerful and graphic picture of the poet's
homeland. In Radwa Ashour's excellent translation, and with a
helpful introduction by Guy Mannes-Abbott who recorded a number of
conversations with the poet over a period of several weeks, this
selection of Mourid Barghouti's poems marks an important addition
to the body of Arabic literature available to English-language
readers world-wide.
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