Songs of an Eastern Humanist

"Considering the emphasis in Said's critical work on space and place and the political importance of geography, it is less surprising to see the luxuriant evocation of a specific topography of dusty roads, grottos, plump figtrees, desert flowers, muddy clods, and the 'beckoning hands of lambent hills'. Most revealing of all, perhaps, is the poems' tendency to see the world through musical form. Mu...