{"id":5278,"date":"2010-11-16T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2010-11-16T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:36:04","slug":"darwish-journal-of-an-ordinary-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/darwish-journal-of-an-ordinary-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwish: Journal of an Ordinary Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Archipelago Books<\/strong> has just published a book of linked autobiographical essays \u2014 first published in Beirut in 1973 \u2014 by the great Palestinian poet Mahmood Darwish<\/strong>, titled Journal of an Ordinary Grief<\/strong>, excellently translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi. What Edward Said wrote about Darwish’s poetry \u2014 that it is “an epic effort to transform the lyrics of loss into the indefinitely postponed drama od return” \u2014 is just as true as these genre-defying prose narratives. Check details and buy it here<\/a>. This is a must read, as I suggest in my blurb for the book:<\/p>\n

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Consider this book an essential \u2018primer for the gradual understanding\u2019 of Palestine and its people. This, Darwish\u2019s first \u2014 1973 \u2014 collection of prose essays is one of the most effective, useful and deeply moving witnessing of a historical tragedy I have read. The writing has an unsurpassed freshness, power and awe exactly because it is poetry that happens to have justified margins, or, as Darwish puts it: \u201cIn the Arabic sentence there is enough room for a continent of tents.\u201d\u00a0 Remember that the Arab word for \u2018tent\u2019 is also the word that means a \u2018verse\u2019 or line of poetry. Darwish hungers for understanding why such calamities have befallen his people and has a profound need for sharing \u2014 and succeeds brilliantly at both of these. This book should be on the reading list of every school in this country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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