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| Translator's Preface | |
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| The Stranger's Bed 1998 | |
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| We Were Missing a Present | |
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| Low Sky | |
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| We Walk on the Bridge | |
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| Your Night Is of Lilac | |
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| The Stranger Stumbles upon Himself in the Stranger | |
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| A Cloud from Sodom | |
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| A Doe's Young Twins | |
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| Take My Horse and Slaughter It... | |
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| The Stranger's Land / the Serene Land | |
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| Inanna's Milk | |
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| No More and No Less | |
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| Wedding Song | |
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| Housework | |
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| Two Stranger Birds in Our Feathers | |
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| I Waited for No One | |
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| Drought | |
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| The Subsistence of Birds | |
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| Maybe, Because Winter Is Late | |
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| Who Am I, Without Exile? | |
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| Jameel Bouthaina and I | |
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| A Mask...for Majnoon Laila | |
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| A Lesson from Kama Sutra | |
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| The Damascene Collar of the Dove | |
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| A State of Siege 2002 | |
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| "Here, by the downslope of hills, facing the sunset" | |
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| Don't Apologize for What You've Done 2003 | |
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| In the Lust of Cadence | |
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| Cadence Chooses Me | |
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| I Have the Wisdom of One Condemned to Death | |
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| Another Day Will Come | |
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| And I, Even if I Were the Last | |
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| In My Mother's House | |
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| Don't Apologize for What You've Done | |
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| On a Day like Today | |
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| Set Down, Here, and Now | |
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| If You Return Alone | |
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| I Didn't Apologize to the Well | |
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| No Banner in the Wind | |
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| The Horse Fell Off the Poem | |
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| To Our Land | |
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| And We Have a Land | |
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| Nothing but Light | |
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| The Beloved Hemorrhaged Anemones | |
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| In Jerusalem | |
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| In Her Absence I Created Her Image | |
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| Wednesday, Friday, Saturday | |
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| Two Olive Trees | |
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| They Don't Look Behind Them | |
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| They Didn't Ask: What's After Death | |
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| Murdered and Unknown | |
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| The Cypress Broke | |
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| A Man and a Fawn Are in the Garden | |
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| This Is Forgetfulness | |
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| You'll Be Forgotten, As If You Never Were | |
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| As for Me, I Say to My Name | |
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| Dream, What Is It? | |
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| Now, When You Awaken, Remember | |
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| The Shadow | |
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| Nothing Pleases Me | |
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| He's Calm, and I Am Too | |
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| Describing Clouds | |
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| A Noun Sentence | |
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| Say What You Want | |
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| Don't Write History as Poetry | |
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| What Will Remain? | |
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| I Don't Know Your Name | |
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| She's Alone in the Evening | |
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| While Waiting | |
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| If I Were Another | |
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| Thanks to Tunis | |
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| I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater | |
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| In Syria | |
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| In Egypt | |
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| I Recall al-Sayyab | |
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| The Coastal Road | |
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| "A road that leads to Egypt and Syria" | |
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| Not as a Foreign Tourist Does | |
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| "I walked on what remains of the heart" | |
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| A Poetry Stanza / the Southerner's House | |
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| "Standing together beneath a window" | |
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| Like a Mysterious Incident | |
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| "In Pablo Neruda's home, on the Pacific" | |
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| The Kurd has Only the Wind | |
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| "The Kurd remembers, when I visit him, his tomorrow" | |
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| Notes | |
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| About the Author | |
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| About the Translator | |