Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
I began thinking about and writing this piece in the spring of 2004, after having had the chance to take part in a seminar on Palestinian and Israeli literature given by the distinguished Lebanese novelist and critic Elias Khoury, with the participation of the equally distinguished American poet, translator, and critic Ammiel Alcalay. In the time that has passed since then, as I have continued to think about the work of Mahmoud Darwish, and about political and cultural issues related to the situation in Israel-Palestine, I occasionally turned back to this essay, thinking, in a rather vague way, that I should try to finish writing it. But when I finally came back to give it my full attention this year, the fact had more to do with the exigencies of academic life than with circumstances in Palestine. So it was a strange coincidence (if there is such a thing as coincidence) that I was once again carefully reading and re-reading the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish when the news arrived of his untimely death at the age of 67 on August 9, 2008.
Repository Citation
Alessandrini, Anthony C.. "Darwish's Revenants." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–23. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss3/3