A Shroud of Damascene Brocade

About this book

Woven from the silk, grief, and fire of Damascus, A Shroud of Damascene Brocade is both an elegy and a witness to collective pain. The poems begin with the intimate loss of a child and widen, like circles on water, to hold the tragedy of a homeland and the endurance of Gaza. Mohamed Darkoushi moves between the formal inheritance of classical Arabic verse and the emotional freedom of modern meter, tracing landscapes from Hauran and the Ghouta to the Orontes. The collection treats mourning not as an ending but as a question of memory, rebirth, and the difficult forms of immortality that emerge from suffering.