{"product_id":"unfortunately-it-was-paradise-9780520273030","title":"Unfortunately It Was Paradise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author 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. This collection spans his entire career, nearly four decades, revealing a range of expression and form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Darwish's complex linguistic negotiations of deeply contested places, on the earth and in the mind, demand and sustain serious reading and discussion.  . . . [Forché's] fluid and precise approach to translation is everywhere apparent here.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“These translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s marvelous poems reveal the lifelong development of a major world poet. The book is a gift to other poets and lovers of poetry. It’s also an important contribution to current and future discourse on culture and politics.” * American Poet *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a beautiful rendering of beautiful verse. It is an important contribution in making accessible an important figure in modern Arab culture. \u003ci\u003eUnfortunately, It Was Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Darwish is a poet of our time as well as a poet of all times.\" * Journal of Palestine Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book—perhaps the most important, available, and representative volume of Darwish to date—is really remarkable. It's striking how this poet is so much at once and as a whole: personal and political, 'experimental' yet lyrically so, informed by philosophy yet reminiscent of prayer.\" * PopMatters *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Munir Akash  Introduction  Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche   FROM Fewer Roses (1986) I Will Slog over This Road  Another Road in the Road  Were It Up to Me to Begin Again  On This Earth  I Belong There  Addresses for the Soul, outside This Place  Earth Presses against Us  We Journey towards a Home  We Travel Like All People  Athens Airport  I Talk Too Much  We Have the Right to Love Autumn  The Last Train Has Stopped  On the Slope, Higher Than the Sea, They Slept  He Embraces His Murderer  Winds Shift against Us  Neighing on the Slope  Other Barbarians Will Come  They Would Love to See Me Dead  When the Martyrs Go to Sleep  The Night There  We Went to Aden  Another Damascus in Damascus  The Flute Cried  In This Hymn   FROM  I See What I Want to See  (1993) The Hoopoe   FROM  Why Have You Left the Horse Alone?  (1995) I See My Ghost Coming from Afar  A Cloud in My Hands  The Kindhearted Villagers  The Owl's Night  The Everlasting Indian Fig  The Lute of Ismael  The Strangers' Picnic  The Raven's Ink  Like the Letter \"N\" in the Qur'an  Ivory Combs  The Death of the Phoenix  Poetic Regulations  Excerpts from the Byzantine Odes of Abu Firas  The Dreamers Pass from One Sky to Another  A Rhyme for the Odes (Mu'allaqat)  Night That Overflows My Body  The Gypsy Woman Has a Tame Sky   FROM  A Bed for the Stranger  (1999) We Were without a Present  Sonnet II  The Stranger Finds Himself in the Stranger  The Land of the Stranger, the Serene Land  Inanna's Milk  Who Am I, without Exile?  Lesson from the Kama Sutra  Mural (2000) Mural  Three Poems (before 1986) A Soldier Dreams of White Tulips  As Fate Would Have It  Four Personal Addresses   Glossary","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864880951639,"sku":"9780520273030","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520273030.jpg?v=1722273256","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unfortunately-it-was-paradise-9780520273030","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}