Interviews. Selections. English

Palestine as metaphor / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché.

Northampton, MA : Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2019.

©2019

xx, 172 pages ; 23 cm

"First English publication of interviews with the late Mahmoud Darwish. Palestine as Metaphor consists of a series of interviews with Mahmoud Darwish, which have never been translated and published in English before. The interviews are a wealth of information on the poet's personal life, his relationships, his numerous works, and his tragedy. They illuminate Darwish's conception of poetry as a supreme art that transcends time and place. Several writers and journalists conducted the interviews, including a Lebanese poet, a Syrian literary critic, three Palestinian writers, and an Israeli journalist. Each encounter took place in a different city from Nicosia to London, Paris, and Amman. These vivid dialogues unravel the threads of a rich life haunted by the loss of Palestine and illuminate the genius and the distress of a major world poet"-- Provided by publisher.

English

March 04, 2020