Review of Mahmoud Darwish

"Absent, I come to the home of the absent," the leading Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, writes. No other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does. At sixty-one, whether he is giving a reading in Paris or Palestine, he draws crowds of thousands, from government officials to schoolteachers, taxi drivers to students.

Chavisa WoodsOctober 21, 2006Handal, Mahmoud Darwish, palestinian poet, Poetry, review, Tribes