{"id":373636,"date":"2008-03-04T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/03\/04\/book-of-the-week-from-el-pais-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T18:29:59","slug":"book-of-the-week-from-el-pais-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/03\/04\/book-of-the-week-from-el-pais-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week from El Pais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, <i>El Pais<\/i> features the work of the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish. A number of his books of poetry have been translated from Arabic into Spanish, including <i>Menos rosas<\/i>, <i>Estado de sitio<\/i>, and <i>Mural<\/i>. Darwish, born to Muslim parents in Al-Birwa, faced exile to Egypt, France, Lebanon, and Tunisia as a result of his writing and political involvment. \u00c1ngel Rup\u00e9rez elaborates on Darwish&#8217;s ability to take on the rather tricky task of crafting poems that approach political subjects:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>La mejor poes\u00eda social y pol\u00edtica es \u00e9sta, la que denuncia sin renunciar a la ambici\u00f3n art\u00edstica&#8230;el resultado es una indiscutible y art\u00edstica complejidad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(The best social and political poetry is this, that which denounces without renouncing artistic ambition&#8230;the result is an unquestionable and artistic complexity.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stuart Reigeluth contributes an accompanying article that provides much more information concerning Darwish&#8217;s political life. Reigeluth writes that, despite exile, incarceration, and censorship, Darwish, &#8220;without accusing any one group, spoke about how the prolonged Israeli occupation has divided Palestine.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You can find both articles in their original Spanish versions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/suple\/babelia\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Darwish&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahmouddarwish.com\/english\/index.htm\">official website<\/a> has more information about the poet, including his biography, audio clips of Darwish reading his poetry in Arabic, and a listing of his books that have been translated into English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, El Pais features the work of the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish. A number of his books of poetry have been translated from Arabic into Spanish, including Menos rosas, Estado de sitio, and Mural. Darwish, born to Muslim parents in Al-Birwa, faced exile to Egypt, France, Lebanon, and Tunisia as a result of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10556,10546,10456,10566,10576],"class_list":["post-373636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-el-pais","tag-mahmud-darwish","tag-ms","tag-palestine","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}