Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?Mahmoud Darwish, translation Jeffrey Sacks At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwishs intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to his displaced people and to the rich Arabic language. Darwishs poems specific and symbolic, simple and profound