Darwish
Tuesday, May 7, 2002
Maybe he is also a chunk of Palestine: something amongst the debris. His voice like rubble on the earth now emptied and occupied by settlers. In this world each ruin holds a story. Within Mahmoud Darwish, the Galilean-born poet, those ruins are words. "Land, like language, is inherited", he writes in his poem The Tragedy of Narcissus, The Comedy of Silver. When that language was contested by power, Darwish's poems implied the imagina
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