Exhausted on the Cross Sigint Both dazzling and devastating

Both dazzling and devastating

U vindt in deze bundel natuurlyriek

”'— Wendy Trevino

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Exhausted on the Cross Sigint Both dazzling and devastatingNajwan Darwish We drag histories behind us, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, here where theres neither land nor sky. In pared down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Darwish records what Ral Zurita describes as something immemorial, almost unspeakablea poetry driven by a moral imperative to be a colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of