About Darwish's work, the poet Naomi Shihab Nyehas said, "Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world's whole heart. What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world—his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered."
I pulled the above citation from an online obituary of Darwish, who wrote A Lover from Palestine.
Taking what Nye (who also wrote a poem you read in this unit!) wrote, apply her beliefs to the poem you read of his. In what ways do they fit? To what was she responding? How did these poems speak to her?
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