Almond Blossoms and Beyond

The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the magnificent sustained Exile cycle, Almond Blossoms holds an important place in Darwish's unparalleled oeuvre. It distills his late style, in which, though the specter of death looms and weddings turn to funerals, he threads the pulses and fragilities and beauties of life into the lines of his poems. Their liveliness is his own response to the collection's final call to bid "Farewell / Farewell, to the poetry of pain."

Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781566567558
ISBN10: 1566567556
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Middle Eastern