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I Don’t want This Poem to End | Mahmoud Darwish (Translated by Mohammad Shaheen) part one And though she and theWhen the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some of which are gathered together in this volume, translated into English for the first time. They include three collections from different phases in Darwishs writing career, as well as reminiscences by friends drawn from the poets final years, and a moving account of the discovery of the new poems in this collection.