If I were another by Mahmoud Darwish and translated by Fady Joudah

This is poetry from Palestine.

If I were another by Mahmoud Darwish translated by Fady Joudah is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780374174293E12.

If I were another, by Mahmoud Darwish, is a Arabic poetry collection from Palestine, translated by Fady Joudah, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2009. It is a Darwish collection haunted by alternate selves, where the conditional mood becomes a form of exile, desire, and self-recognition. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation, but the chance to let one poet’s particular difficulty create its own weather.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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