If I Were Another: Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

If I Were Another: Poems

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If I Were Another: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

If I Were Another: Poems

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Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation

Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers.

His language--lyrical and tender--helped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living metaphor for the universal experiences of exile, loss, and identity. The poems in this collection, constructed from the cadence and imagery of the Palestinian struggle, shift between the most intimate individual experience and the burdens of history and collective memory.

Brilliantly translated by Fady Joudah, If I Were Another--which collects the greatest epic works of Darwish's mature years--is a powerful yet elegant work by a master poet that demonstrates why Darwish was one of the most celebrated poets of his time and was hailed as the voice and conscience of an entire people.
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374532475
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
240
Authors:
Mahmoud Darwish
Published Date:
2011-03-01
Language:
English
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About Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) was born in Al-Birwa, a village in Mandatory Palestine destroyed in 1948. He became the national poet of Palestine and one of the most widely translated Arab poets of the twentieth century. His poetry collections include A Lover from Palestine (1966) and Unfortunately, It Was Paradise (2003), a volume of selected poems in English translation. His prose memoir Memory for Forgetfulness, on the 1982 siege of Beirut, appeared in Arabic in 1987. He served on the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and edited the literary journal Al-Karmel. He received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1983 and the Prince Claus Award in 2004.

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