Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish and translated by Munir Akash, Carolyn Forché, Sinan Antoon, Amira El-Zein

This is poetry from Palestine.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish translated by Munir Akash, Carolyn Forché, Sinan Antoon, Amira El-Zein is published by University of California Press. This is a Book originally written in Palestinian.

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.

Find the work-in-progress translated poetry index here.

I have, unfortunately, not read this book yet; however, if you’d like to chat about it let me know!