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Palestine, shaped from the beginning by words, this is the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish. His individual story is inseparably linked to the collective fate, and an entire people recognizes themselves in the voice of the poet.
However, Darwish is first and foremost this: a great poet, and then a Palestinian, and then an Arab, and then a name, origin, root. He contemplates how without identity, without homeland, and without family, our authentic freedom is, and how wonderfully our soul can confront what the mind stubbornly confines.
And Darwish feels how the death of another is our own death, how alone we are when we think we have allies and opponents. He observes how much more important than our works, our struggles, our fears, and our wars is the beauty of nature, how much pure life we waste for a victory and a defeat, while the creation and the world around us die and resurrect without pause, without end.
And Darwish concludes how much greater than hatred is love. For him, place and poetry have become one. Homeland and exile have become one. The foreigner, the enemy, and the self have become one.
The extensive anthology titled I Do Not Belong to Me presents the leading contemporary poet of Palestine in all his artistic, spiritual, and humanitarian breadth.
"Through Darwish's poetry, Palestine becomes the map of the human soul." Elias Khouri
"A brilliant poet, undoubtedly the most gifted of his generation in the entire Arab world. Darwish's poetry is an epic attempt to transform the lyricism of loss into the indefinitely postponed drama of return." Edward Said
"Darwish managed, perhaps more than any other Arab or Palestinian writer, to keep the example of Palestine as a continuous, pulsating presence." Anton Shammas
"Rooted in the life, the suffering, and the immortal hopes of the Palestinian people, Darwish's poems, with such morphological beauty that they often touch the transcendence of the unspeakable in a single word, are like a diary where the destructions have been documented, step by step, tear by tear, as well as the few, yet always profound joys of a people whose martyrdom, after sixty years, is still not willing to announce its end. Reading Mahmoud Darwish, beyond being an unforgettable aesthetic experience, is also a painful journey through the paths of injustice and humiliation." José Saramago
Manufacturer
- Author
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Release Date
- 09/12/2024
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789600373561
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