New York Review Books, Belletristik, Exhausted on the Cross (Englisch, Najwan Darwish, 2021)
16,32 €
A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature. &ldquo We drag histories behind us,&rdquo the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, &ldquo here / where there&rsquo s neither land / nor sky.&rdquo In pared-down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Darwish records what Raú l Zurita describes as &ldquo something immemorial, almost unspeakable&rdquo &mdash a poetry driven by a &ldquo moral imperative&rdquo to be a &ldquo colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of compassion.&rdquo Darwish&rsquo s poems cross histories, cultures, and geographies, taking us from the grime of modern-day Shatila and the opulence of medieval Baghdad to the gardens of Samarkand and the open-air prison of present-day Gaza. We join the Persian poet Hafez in the conquered city of Shiraz and converse with the Prophet Mohammad in Medina. Poem after poem evokes the humor in the face of despair, the hope in the face of nightmare.
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