Mahmoud Darwish

Biography

Mahmoud Darwish published thirty poetry and prose collections before his death in 2008. His final book of poems, If I Were Another, translated by Fady Joudah, is forthcoming from FSG in November, and an edition of his notebooks A River Dies of Thirst will appear from Archipelago Books in December.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2009

Funeral

By Mahmoud Darwish
POETRY / Winter 2009

The Words

By Mahmoud Darwish

Heavenly earth flutters in the mind, word-borne.

POETRY / Winter 2009

The Dice Player

By Mahmoud Darwish
Summer 2008

With the Mist So Dense on the Bridge

By Mahmoud Darwish