Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Great Regulars: On the one side, [Mahmoud] Darwish

is a voice of conscience, his aesthetic that of exile, of resistance, in which language becomes the only passage to a homeland that must be reimagined, reanimated, before it can be repossessed. On the other, he is derided as a friend of terrorists, a one-time member of the PLO whose writing is meant to function as a social, or political, accelerant.

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: David L. Ulin on Mahmoud Darwish

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