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Currently on Don’t Apologize for What You’ve Done. I’m not entirely clear on the subject. The Stranger’s Bed was about love, perhaps love of country or romantic love or both. A State of Siege is clearly about the Palestine under occupation. However, this third book is unclear to me still. Maybe it’s left up to interpretation more than the other books?

I finished A State of Siege. I thought it was incredible, period. Also, it must’ve been incredibly painful to write and written works such as these come from incredibly difficult lived experiences. May Allah have mercy on Mahmoud Darwish.

The poems in the first book, The Stranger’s Bed, are pretty imaginative and metaphorical. They are somewhat hard to grasp, however, when I do understand them—or feel I do, I love them!

I’ve only read the forward and the first two poems so far but I suspect I will love this book, drawing much inspiration from it.