Poems From Palestine

Fady Joudah, the translator of the following poem, discusses it in an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here. Colonial soldiers,what have they been doingto my poetry all these yearswhen I could have easily killed themin my poemsas they’ve killed my ...

Dawn broke on our heads.Endings were cut down to size.Our little ones’ feetrapidly turnedtoward the sky.Time set itself asideand places shut their eyes,like a child with wordsthat gray behind her lids.Ceilings tumbledwaterfalls of stone,and under the rubblethe last perceived ...