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Almond Blossoms and Beyond
Almond Blossoms and Beyond
by Mahmoud Darwish, Edited by Amro Naddy, Translated by Mohammad Shaheen
𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
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.”