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ayahelsheikh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
This would’ve been a banger I could read it in Arabic AHHH! A mastery of thought that was translated well, but still stifled by transformation.
I read that Darwish wrote this when he was at risk of death in the hospital in 1999, which gives context to the way he floats between themes of life and death. There’s this pervasive idea that everything belongs to me but myself. You inhabit and nurture the body but you do not own it. He very subtly seems to say that the same is true of Palestine.
Funny enough, my frustration with the translation wasn’t unfounded because a graduate student in the West Bank, Wafa’ Saleh, wrote a whole thesis about it. 😄
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May I soon master my mother tongue and widen my horizons for Arabic literature! Ameen!
I read that Darwish wrote this when he was at risk of death in the hospital in 1999, which gives context to the way he floats between themes of life and death. There’s this pervasive idea that everything belongs to me but myself. You inhabit and nurture the body but you do not own it. He very subtly seems to say that the same is true of Palestine.
Funny enough, my frustration with the translation wasn’t unfounded because a graduate student in the West Bank, Wafa’ Saleh, wrote a whole thesis about it. 😄
https://repository.najah.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/0d66bcf4-c218-40f9-bc77-ee50a9c119c9/content
May I soon master my mother tongue and widen my horizons for Arabic literature! Ameen!
nick_gdz's review against another edition
5.0
May Palestine be free and liberated in our lifetime. 🇵🇸
hades_hotline's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
3.0
parts that gripped me parts that were more lackluster. he truly is a poet though, he knows how to build emotion, and will always have the best portrayals of love