In this new collection on the entire Arab poetic scene, Mahmoud Darwish moves towards biography: the biography of place when geography contains it so that history can express itself in it, and the biography of the sites of place when they turn into stations for the body and markers for the soul, thus creating a unique epic formula for a dense autobiography that moves in space, scanning time from the height of a bird's eye, then summarizing its elements in a journey of regression towards a pole that creates, participates, and guarantees. He is a tragic human being, but... a poet with a cloud in his hand. One should recall, here specifically, what Edward Said wrote about Mahmoud Darwish: ((Poetry for Darwish is not limited to providing a tool for access to an unusual vision, or to a universe far from a conventional system, but rather it is a difficult cohesion of poetry and collective memory, and the pressure of each on the other)). Some of the poems: I - Icons from the Crystal of Place II - Abel's Space III - Chaos at the Door of Resurrection IV - A Room for Talking to Oneself V - Rain on the Church Tower