Book record
If I were another
Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah
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.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Palestine
- ISBN
- 9780374174293