TY - BOOK AU - Darwish,Maḥmoud AU - El-Zein,Amira AU - Forche,Carolyn TI - Palestine as Metaphor SN - 9781623719425 AV - PJ7820.A7Z46 PY - 2019/// CY - Northampton, MA PB - Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. KW - Darwish, Maḥmoud KW - Authors, Palestinian Arab KW - 20th century KW - Interviews N2 - "First English publication of interviews with the late Mahmoud Darwish. Palestine as Metaphor consists of a series of interviews with Mahmoud Darwish, which have never been translated and published in English before. The interviews are a wealth of information on the poet's personal life, his relationships, his numerous works, and his tragedy. They illuminate Darwish's conception of poetry as a supreme art that transcends time and place. Several writers and journalists conducted the interviews, including a Lebanese poet, a Syrian literary critic, three Palestinian writers, and an Israeli journalist. Each encounter took place in a different city from Nicosia to London, Paris, and Amman. These vivid dialogues unravel the threads of a rich life haunted by the loss of Palestine and illuminate the genius and the distress of a major world poet"-- ER -