We sit down with Professor Jeff Sacks and Poet Fady Joudah to speak about famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Fady Joudah has published three poetry collection and four of poetry in translation. He has received the Yale Series, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Griffin Poetry Prize for his work. Textu is his most recent poetry collection and A Map of Signs and Scents, the selected poems of Amjad Nasser, is his latest translation work. He is the translator of a volume of poems by Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly's Burden (Copper Canyon, 2007).
Jeff Sacks is a writer, translator, and scholar; he is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish (Fordham UP, 2015). He has translated a volume of poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Archipelago, 2006), and is presently writing a book, Simplicities: A Colonial Archive, about the history of the word "simple"; a second book, For Decolonization, about the lyric poem and the question of Palestine; and a volume of poetry, called Second Name.
