Book record
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from Palestinian by Munir Akash, Carolyn Forché, Sinan Antoon, Amira El-Zein
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, by Mahmoud Darwish, is a Arabic poetry collection from Palestine, translated by Munir Akash, Carolyn Forché, Sinan Antoon, Amira El-Zein, published by University of California Press. It is a Palestinian collection by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Munir Akash, Carolyn Forché, Sinan Antoon, and Amira El-Zein. Darwish's poems carry exile, homeland, love, and historical wound with a lyric authority that never becomes simple slogan. 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. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Language
- Palestinian
- Country
- Palestine