[New-Poetry] Darwish obit

[TheOldMole]

Does this mean NewPo is back? All my posts the last couple of days have 
been bounced.

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=94938 
> <http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=94938>
> Celebrated Palestinian poet dies in US hospital
> Mahmoud Darwish, 67, leaves behind legacy of over two-dozen books of 
> poetry and prose spanning a nearly five-decade career
> By Agence France Presse (AFP)
> Monday, August 11, 2008
> OBITUARY
>
> Majeda El Batsh
> Agence France Presse
>
> JERUSALEM: Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest 
> poets in Palestine and the wider Arab world, died Saturday in a US 
> hospital following open-heart surgery. He was being treated at the 
> Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. According to a friend in 
> Jerusalem who preferred to remain anonymous, the 67-year-old writer 
> was placed on life support two days ago following complications 
> arising from the surgery.
>  
> Darwish published more than two-dozen books of poetry and prose over a 
> career spanning nearly five decades and his poetry has been translated 
> into more than 20 languages. Rooted in his experience of national 
> exile, his work captured the Palestinian experience of war, exile, and 
> the struggle for national self-determination.
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