Journal of an Ordinary Grief Paperback – Deckle Edge, November 5, 2010

Genius book. Heart wrenching.

Wonderful book. Poetical as always but more historical than any other. Very autobiographical too.I do love these poetical prose of Darwich. Heve read all the the 3.I am reading it as I am writting my own book about Palestine.Thank you very much SWATTI

Good, thoughtful writing about being a Palestinian.

Decades since this was written and it is beautifully and sadly to the point now, Jan 2025, as the Palestinians are suffering relentless bombardment snd starvation in Gaza. Such a fluent and versatile voice. A witness and participant. An ordinary grief? I don’t understand the title — does he mean that grief is so universal for his people— a profound identification with a people— that it is ordinary, routine, indistinguishable from anyone else’s. But that doesn’t quite make sense if grief is not only collective. An everyman’s experience in that he is just one more person subject to history and loss.? I like that title and this book very much.

It's a beautiful translation of a very painful situation... the creation of the State of Israel from the point of view of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was displaced as a child. If you are Jewish, and want to understand the Palestinian view I'd say this is a must read.

It was as described. Great Condition.

The name Mahmoud Darwish stimulates anticipation and love for his vision and imagery. A world class poet in diaspora from the long occupied Palestinian homeland...no longer amongst us but with his readers and fans at every page.

This is a wonderful collection of essays from an Arab poet that has been translated into English. His essays provide us with solemn and poignant insights into the Palestinian people and the dignity with which they bear their tragedies. Some of his essays provide a good historical map to the current Palestinian homeland situation, the loss felt by her people and what it means to them, living within the walls of occupation.Darwish has a soulful voice, one I would like to hear more often.