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Najwan Darwish

Contributor

Najwan Darwish

Palestine

Najwan Darwish is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets. His second major collection in English translation, Exhausted on the Cross (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid), was published by NYRB Poets in 2021, with a foreword by Raúl Zurita....

Exhausted on the Cross shortlisted to the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the National Translation Awards, Derek Walcott Prize and is the winner of the Sarah Maguire Prize. Darwish lives between Haifa and his birthplace, Jerusalem.

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Near the Shrine of Saint Naum

By Najwan Darwish

I stood in the red church, / its tiny domes like buds / blossoming in stone

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

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Life in Mount Carmel

By Najwan Darwish

Their poems reach me from their temple

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Nathalie Handal

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Near the Shrine of Saint Naum

Life in Mount Carmel