[New-Poetry] Darwish obit

[Anny Ballardini]

It seems so... the was the ghostly voice of Rsgwynn towering from nowhere...


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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:26 PM


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>> 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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