Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), a Palestinian, was a preeminent Arab poet honored the world over for his poetry. Fady Joudah was the recipient of the Griffin International Poetry prize in 2013. His latest poetry collections are Alight and Textu, from Copper Canyon Press. Textu is written in meter based on the character count of smart phones. He is a practicing physician of internal medicine.
Poetry
Summer 2009
If I Were Another
In solitude lies the competency of one entrusted with himself—he writes a phrase, looks up at the ceiling, then adds: To be alone . . . to be able to […]
Poetry
Summer 2009
At a Train Station That Fell off the Map
Grass, dry air, thorns, and cactuson the iron wire. There’s the shape of a thingin the frivolity of nonshape chewing its shadow . . .a bound void . . . […]
Poetry
Summer 2009
Rustle
And like one who listens to a hidden revelation, I listen to the summer leaves . . . a timid, anesthetized sound, descending from the distances of sleep . . […]
Poetry
Summer 2005
In Jerusalem
From the Arabic. In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls,I walk from one epoch to another without a memoryTo guide me. The prophets over there are sharingThe history […]
Poetry
Summer 2005
Don’t Write History as Poetry
From the Arabic. Don't write history as poetry, because the weapon is The historian. And the historian doesn't get fever Chills when he names his victims and doesn't listen To […]
Poetry
Summer 2005
On a Day like Today
From the Arabic. On a day like today, in the hidden corner Of the church, in full feminine adornment, In a leap year, in the meeting of endless Green with […]
Fall 2008
In Memory of Mahmoud Darwish
The Kenyon Review is pleased to present three poems by Mahmoud Darwish, a remembrance of Darwish by his translator, Fady Joudah, and a poem by Joudah in 2013 on the […]