#Like a straw bird it follows me code#

Zaqtan is not only the most important Palestinian poet alive, but one of the most important poets of our time, embodying in various sophisticated and cosmopolitan forms of expression depths of feeling, complexity, compassion, and witness beyond compare.”-Lawrence Joseph, author of Into It “ Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me’s generous selection of Ghassan Zaqtan’s poems, masterfully and compellingly translated by Fady Joudah, is a gift. Joudah’s brilliant translations capture not only sense, sound, and rhythm, but also pulse, infusing the English language with a new sensibility.”-Cole Swensen, Iowa Writers’ Workshop “Zaqtan’s poems are uncompromising in their direct engagement with daily life, detailing the way in which the quotidian is, after all, the grand narrative of history. But his lyric voice sketches in his notebook the bloody events of his country, and the policemen and gunshots become myths, become lyric fire.”-Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky, American Book Review “ rare occurrence in the poetry world: a documentary perspective of life in a time of war delivered through lyrical utterance. “ examines states of being in quotidian life with the patience and care of a jeweler.” -Kevin Hong, Arts Fuse

“A beautiful and substantive collection.”-James Tolan, Ploughshares blog Praise For Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)…

#Like a straw bird it follows me code#

'Ghassan Zaqtan's poems, in their constant unfolding,' Joudah writes, 'invite us to enter them, exit them, map and unmap them, code and decode them, fill them up and empty them, with the living and nonliving, the animate and inanimate, toward a true freedom.' In his preface to the volume, Joudah analyzes and explores the poet's body of work. Departing from the lush aesthetics of such celebrated predecessors as Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis, Zaqtan's daily, delicate narrative, whirling catalogues, and at times austere aesthetics represent a new trajectory, a significant leap for young Arabic poets today. With these poems Zaqtan enters new terrain, illuminating the vision of what Arabic poetry in general and Palestinian poetry in particular are capable of. In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time. A stirring collection of recent work by a leading poet of the Arab world, superbly translated for English-language readers