Book record
I don’t want this poem to end
Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from Arabic by Mohammad Shaheen
I don't want this poem to end, by Mahmoud Darwish, is a Arabic poetry collection from Palestine, translated by Mohammad Shaheen, published by Interlink in 2017. It is a late Darwish work that turns continuation itself into lyric desire, as though the poem were a way of postponing disappearance. There is enough factual grounding here to place the book, but the real test is readerly. Does the poem leave an image behind; does it change the room; does it ask the tongue to behave differently for a moment? This collection earns its place because it keeps that possibility open. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Interlink
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Palestine
- ISBN
- 9781566560009