Book record
Almond blossoms and beyond
Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from Arabic by Mohammad Shaheen
Almond blossoms and beyond, by Mahmoud Darwish, is a Arabic poetry collection from Palestine, translated by Mohammad Shaheen, published by Interlink Books in 2009. It is a Darwish collection where beauty refuses innocence, with blossoms carrying homeland, elegy, and the afterimage of political life. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Interlink Books
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Palestine
- ISBN
- 9781566567558