The Indian never had a horse.

This volume is the French translation of the first three parts of the original English edition, The Indian Never Had a Horse, published by Simone Fattal, The Post Apollo Press, Sausalito, California, 1986, with images by Russell Chatham. The fourth part of this work, Spreading Clouds, was reprinted, in the author's translation, in the volume Je suis un volcan, Galerie Lelong & Co, 2021. The fifth and sixth parts appear in Le cycle des tilleuls, Al Manar, 2012. The original version of the Love Poems appeared in the volume Women in the Fertile Crescent, Three Continents Press, Washington DC, 1978. It was set to music by Gavin Bryars and premiered in 1996 at the Almeida Festival, London. The original version of Five Senses for One Death appeared in The Smith, New York, 1971. These poems inspired Simone Fattal to create a series of paintings, drawings and pastels exhibited in Beirut, Gallery One, in 1973. This cycle of poems has also been the subject of several public readings by the author, accompanied by a musical improvisation by Gavin Bryars, notably at the Whitechapel Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery, London, on the occasion of the Memory Marathon, organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist in

2012.