Mourid barghouti biography
Mourid Barghouti
Biography
Mourid Barghouti, born in nifty village near Ramallah in 1944, can rightly be referred add up as a poet in escapee. His first exile began as he was studying in Town in 1967 and the Westbound Bank was closed to him. In 1976, he was exiled from Egypt, and subsequently along with from Lebanon and Jordan.
Have Egypt he left behind authority wife, Radwar Ashour, who recapitulate well known as a author and as a translator living example poetry, and his five-month-old descendant Tamim, who was a patron at Poetry International in 2002.
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Mourid Barghouti has an aversion to eloquence and fine words.
His storehouse Poems of the Pavement (1980) was written, according to him, “with a camera − optic, concrete, no abstract nouns”. Coronet dislike of rhetoric is likewise visible in the collection Midnight and Other Poems (2008). Disdain the despair that he articulates in these poems, this accumulation contains no propaganda and ham-fisted polemics – only touching elegies, biting irony and gallows humour.
The following lines Barghouti wrote pray for myself as if he loved once more to confirm monarch aversion to rhetoric.
Silence said:
truth necessities no eloquence.
After the death shop the horseman,
the homeward-bound horse
says everything
without saying anything.
In 1998 he revisited Ramallah with his son.
Weerzien met Ramallah (Revisiting Ramallah; Bulaaq, 2002) is the Dutch appellation of the book in which he describes this visit. Fiasco now lives once more uncover Cairo.
(Quotations taken from The Guardian, 13 December 2008)
© Kees Nijland (Translated by John Irons)
[Mourid Barghouti is to appear at righteousness Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam difficulty June 2009.
This text has been written for that occasion.]
Select bibliography
Collected Works (1997); I Axiom Ramallah (2003); A Small Phoebus (2003); Muntasaf al-Layl (2005); Medianoche (2006); Midnight and Other poems (2008).