Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected PoemsMahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary traditions while simultaneously struggling to open new possibilities for poetry. This collection spans Darwish's entire career, nearly four decades,

Thus a tale of the jungles and villages of Indonesia is interknit with one of the houses and warehouses of bourgeois Amsterdam

kulihat kening matamu yang halus di cahaya jalanan

who could be a liberator to his people—unless

noisy and fundamentally unnatural

Edited by Faisal Aziz & Liyana Jaafar

Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers

Maxime Rodinson

In New York Sketches

and disturb us—and our longstanding love affair with books in turn has had direct

James Joyce

two conflicting notions of nationalism have evolved and shaped the idea of the nation

it is utterly incapable of creating it'