Mural.

Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile and loss.

His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity.

Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works, his long masterpiece 'Mural,' a contemplation of his life and work written following life-threatening surgery, and his last poem, 'The Dice Player,' which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death.