Nothing More to Lose
Synopsis
Nothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish's poetry walks the razor's edge between despair and resistance, between dark humor and harsh political realities. With incisive imagery and passionate lyricism, Darwish confronts themes of equality and justice while offering a radical, more inclusive, rewriting of what it means to be both Arab and Palestinian living in Jerusalem, his birthplace.igious traditions--has made Darwish one of the very few Palestinian poets to garner a large readership outside his homeland. While so many poets within Palestine are trying to follow in the footsteps of Mahmoud Darwish--whose influence on Palestinian poetry was enormous from the 1960s to his death in 2008--Najwan Darwish is widely respected for his refusal to take on the mantle of his famous namesake (to whom he bears no relation). This refusal is clearest in his own poetic rebuttal to Mahmoud Darwish's best-known poem, "Identity Card"--a radical rewriting that espouses a more inclusive view of what it means to be both Arab and Palestinian.
- प्रतिलिपि अधिकार:
- 1981 Najwan Darwish, Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781590177471
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books
- Date of Addition:
- 2014-04-29T17:32:59Z
- भाषा:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.