If I Were Another Poems
by Darwish, Mahmoud; Joudah, FadyEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-03-01
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for TranslationMahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His languagelyrical and tenderhelped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living metaphor for the universal experiences of exile, loss, and identity. The poems in this collection, constructed from the cadence and imagery of the Palestinian struggle, shiftbetween the most intimate individual experience and the burdens of history and collective memory. Brilliantly translated by Fady Joudah,If I Were Anotherwhich collects the greatest epic works of Darwish's mature yearsis a powerful yet elegant work by a master poet and demonstrates why Darwish was one of the most celebrated poets of his time and was hailed as the voice and conscience of an entire people.
Author Biography
Mahmoud Darwish was born in the village of al-Birweh in what was then Western Galilee, Palestine. He published more than twenty volumes of poetry and ten volumes of prose. He was the recipient of numerous awards for both his poetry and his political activism.
Fady Joudah is a physician, poet, and translator. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s The Butterfly’s Burden was a finalist for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Mahmoud Darwish's Lyric Epic | p. vii |
| I See What I Want (1990) | |
| Rubaiyat | p. 4 |
| Take Care of the Stags, Father | p. 9 |
| Truce with the Mongols by the Holm Oak Forest | p. 16 |
| A Music Sentence | p. 21 |
| The Tragedy of Narcissus the Comedy of Silver | p. 23 |
| The Hoopoe | p. 42 |
| Eleven Planets (1992) | |
| Eleven Planets at the End of the Andalusian Scene | p. 57 |
| On the last evening on this earth | |
| How do I write above the clouds? | |
| I have behind the sky a sky | |
| And I am one of the kings of the end | |
| One day, I will sit on the sidewalk | |
| Truth has two faces and the snow is black | |
| Who am I after the stranger's night? | |
| Water, be a string to my guitar | |
| In exodus I love you more | |
| I want from love only the beginning | |
| The violins | |
| The "Red Indian's" Penultimate Speech to the White Man | p. 69 |
| A Canaanite Rock in the Dead Sea | p. 78 |
| We will Choose Sophocles | p. 83 |
| Rita's Winter | p. 88 |
| A Horse for the Stranger | p. 94 |
| Mural (2000) | p. 99 |
| Exile (2005) | |
| Tuesday and the Weather is Clear | p. 149 |
| Dense Fog over the Bridge | p. 160 |
| Like a Hand Tattoo in the Jahili Poet's Ode | p. 171 |
| Counterpoint | p. 183 |
| Notes | p. 195 |
| Glossary | p. 197 |
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