Mahmoud Darwish has died

Comments (3)

• On August 9, 2008 at 10:28 pm Brian Salchert wrote:

  I agree with you, Mr. Share, about Daisy Fried’s interview,
  and with your comment about Fady Joudah.

• On August 11, 2008 at 12:42 am dale Smith wrote:

  Darwish’s narrative/documentary (Memory for Forgetfulness) remains one of the most powerful apprehensions of the brutality of a homeland under siege. Israelis? Palestinians? PLO? Western Powers? Whatever. In that book. One man. A cigarette. Holding it together in the nerve-shattering chaos of nothing holding together. Reminds me of Semezdin Mehmedinovic’s extraordinary Sarajevo Blues–a world under siege by, who else, thugs. Anyway, much love in memory of this fine man.

• On August 12, 2008 at 9:51 pm Sam Kuraishi wrote:

  To You Mahmood:
  He Had his words
  tied in a ribbon;
  they came to his life
  and cut the wrapping.
  Words were left
  on the sidewalk of destiny
  swept by the bustling wind
  like autumn leaves.
  For what he said
  in what he believed,
  was an agony,
  but he was too strong with his afflictions.
  He wrote his own fate
  with his own words,
  and his shadow was the reflection
  of his own body.
  The try to slash his own words,
  but they couldn’t slaughter his spirit
  for his spirit is free,
  and his words are “verse libre.”
  Sam Kuriashi
  Chicago, Illinois, U.SA.