Darwish: Poems

In this sumptuous, expansive collection, selections from across the entire career of Mahmoud Darwish, renderer of worlds, are gathered beneath one roof. This volume also features first-time translations of some of the Palestine national poet’s most significant works in English.

Darwish, whose life in exile spanned from the Galilee to Paris to Beirut to Cairo to his final destination, Houston, created poetry of intense beauty and resonance, and in his verses, everyone who has ever been dispos...