| Mural was written after Darwish underwent a life-threatening surgical procedure, and the poem bears the scars of that crisis; The Dice Player, his last poem, the | I won't review Mahmoud Darwish's Mural, which contains the gorgeous 45-page title poem and a second, shorter poem, The Dice Player, both brought over into vigorous English by Rema Hammami and John Berger |
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Salle des Illustres, Le Capitole, Toulouse, France.