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HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

Volume VII • Special Issue • 2009

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"If I touch the Depth of Your Heart … " :
THE HUMAN PROMISE OF POETRY IN MEMORIES OF
MAHMOUD DARWISH

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Issue Co-Editors (alphabetical):
Anna D. Beckwith, UMass Boston
Elora Chowdhury, UMass Boston
Leila Farsakh, UMass Boston
Askold Melnyczuk, UMass Boston
Erica Mena, UMass Boston and University of Iowa
Dorothy Shubow Nelson, UMass Boston
Joyce Peseroff, UMass Boston
Rajini Srikanth, UMass Boston

Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
UMass Boston
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vii—Editor’s Note: Mahmoud Darwish’s Parting Gift
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston

Mahmoud Darwish, "I Long for My Mother's Bread" (Song by Marcel Khalife)

Keynote Openings

1—The Candle
Winston Langley, University of Massachusetts Boston

3—For Gaza
Martha Collins, Poet, Writer, and Editor

Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry

5-6—From the New Book: If I Were Another: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)

KEYNOTE INTRODUCTION
7—Mahmoud Darwish’s Lyric Epic
Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American Poet, Physician, and Translator

Selected Long Poems by Mahmoud Darwish: Translations by Fady Joudah

19—The “Red Indian’s” Penultimate Speech to the White Man

25—Tuesday and the Weather is Clear

33—Hoopoe

41—From the New Book, A River Dies of Thirst: Journals (Archipelago, 2009)

Selected Short Poems by Mahmoud Darwish: Translations by Catherine Cobham

43—A River Dies of Thirst

45—Assassination

47—Nero

49—The Enemy

51—The House as Casualty

53—The Rest of A Life

55—If We Want To

Commemorative Poetry

KEYNOTE POETRY
57—Selected Poems: Country • Practicing Loving Kindness • Peace • No
Night Sky • Living History • Cyclones and Seeds
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Palestinian-American Writer, Scholar and Poet

75—Letter to Mahmoud Darwish
Amy Tighe, UMass and Boston College Alumni and Poet

79—Truth
Dorothy Shubow Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston

81—Darwish Sits In
Robert Lipton, Poet and Writer

83—American Idols
Joyce Peseroff, University of Massachusetts Boston

85—Wreck
Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American Poet, Physician, and Translator

91—The Lost and Found Warehouse
Shaari Neretin, Social Worker and Activist

99—Mantra for Mahmoud Darwish
Jack Hirschman, Poet

Commemorative Essays

KEYNOTE ESSAY
101—Darwish and the Meaning of Palestine
Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts Boston

105—Why the Solidarity?: South Asian Activism for Palestine
Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts Boston

111—The Geography of Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish and Postnational Identity
Erica Mena, University of Iowa

119—The Lost and Forgotten: Exploring the Narratives of Darwish and Silko
Kyleen Aldrich, University of Massachusetts Boston

123—An Anthem for the Dream Land: The Legacy of Poetry for the Palestinian and
African-American Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Nadia Alahmed, University of Massachusetts Amherst

137—Darwish’s Essentialist Poetics in a State of Siege
Patrick Sylvain, Brown University, Harvard University, and University of Massachusetts Boston

151—Tables of Contents of Previous Issues

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