Our Present Does Not Decide Either to Begin or to End

[...]the confidence that they placed in my interior universe made them accept all the innovations. [...]I have never found myself compelled to conform to the image that my first poems imprinted on the consciousness of people. [...]it's a question of dialogue with all cultures in succession on t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Massachusetts review 2019-10, Vol.60 (3), p.425-438
Main Authors: Darwish, Mahmoud, Badr, Liana, Muhammad, Zakariyya, Jaber, Mundher, El-Zein, Amira, Forché, Carolyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Palestinian people
Poetry
Politics
Prophecies
Reading
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:[...]the confidence that they placed in my interior universe made them accept all the innovations. [...]I have never found myself compelled to conform to the image that my first poems imprinted on the consciousness of people. [...]it's a question of dialogue with all cultures in succession on the land of Palestine. Because of the symbolic power that has surrounded my person and my work, the critique has turned away from the aesthetical aspect of my poetry and has only been interested in its national or political registers. [...]it's about an ability to perceive the real without losing oneself in appearances. [...]one did not need to be exceptionally intelligent to judge that our presence in Beirut would not last and that the respite that the Palestinians and their organization found there would be interrupted.
ISSN:0025-4878
2330-0485
2330-0485
DOI:10.1353/mar.2019.0081