{"id":15312,"date":"2017-04-18T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15312"},"modified":"2017-04-18T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:22:09","slug":"forthcoming-i-dont-want-this-poem-to-end-new-collection-of-work-by-and-about-mahmoud-darwish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/forthcoming-i-dont-want-this-poem-to-end-new-collection-of-work-by-and-about-mahmoud-darwish\/","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming: \u2018I Don\u2019t Want This Poem to End,\u2019 New Collection of Work by and About Mahmoud\u00a0Darwish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"BY MLYNXQUALEY<\/a><\/span><\/span> on<\/em> 1<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n

Interlink Books recently added to their website a page for<\/em> I Don\u2019t Want This Poem to End<\/a>:\u00a0Early and Late Poems<\/a>, by\u00a0<\/em>Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Mohammad Shaheen, with an introduction by Elias Khoury:<\/em>
\nAccording to the publisher:<\/section>\n

When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some of which are gathered together in this volume, translated into English for the first time. They include three collections from different phases in Darwish\u2019s writing career, as well as reminiscences by friends drawn from the poet\u2019s final years, and a moving account of the discovery of the new poems in this collection. This volume includes:<\/p>\n

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  • \u201cHow We Found the Poems\u201d by Elias Khoury, a friend of Darwish and a distinguished novelist<\/li>\n
  • \u201cMy Friend Mahmoud,\u201d a biographical memoir by Professor Mohammad Shaheen, translator of Darwish\u2019s poetry.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe End of the Night,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a Song,\u201d and \u201cI Don\u2019t Want this Poem to End\u201d\u2014three collections totaling about 80 poems, most translated into English for the first time.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cOn Exile,\u201d a prose essay by Mahmoud Darwish.<\/li>\n
  • A letter from the poet to his brother, written in 1965 from an Israeli prison.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cLast Meeting\u201d by Faisal Darraj, a leading critic in the Arab world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Interlink website only promises \u201cforthcoming 2017,\u201d while Amazon suggests a mid-August pub date. Mohammad Shaheen, a professor of English at the University of Jordan, previously translated Darwish\u2019s Almond Blossoms and Beyond<\/em>, also published by Interlink, and Darwish\u2019s Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Absent Presence; <\/em>the latter\u00a0was also translated as\u00a0In the Presence of Absence\u00a0<\/em>by Sinan Antoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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