This selection comes from If I Were Another, winner of the 2010 PEN USA Translation Award. Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was a Palestinian poet, author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, whose work is of such global significance that hit has been translated into nearly thirty languages. Fady Joudah has been recognized for his distinguished translations of Darwish’s poetry, and won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his own first book of poems, The Earth in the Attic.
Instead of reiterating a fragmented and fragmenting language use, this project re-posts tweet-length moments from larger forms of reflection, that themselves consider artistic wholes, with links when possible to those instances of synthesis and integrity. The prototypical post here is a short passage from a review of a literary work published by a not-for-profit press.
