Najwan Darwish (b. 1978, Jerusalem) is one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets. He has published eight books in Arabic, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His most recent book in English translation is Exhausted on the Cross (NYRB Poets, 2021).
Mohamed Masri / Courtesy of the artist
I Write the Land
I want to write the land,
I want the words
to be the land itself.
But I’m just a statue the Romans carved
and the Arabs forgot.
Col...
New York. NYRB. 2021. 144 pages.
IN NAJWAN DARWISH‘S unflinching new collection of poems, Exhausted on the Cross, we witness a poet in conflict with his calling, conversing w...
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177303
Najwan Darwish is a young Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is no relation to the great Palestinian p...