TY - BOOK AU - Darwīsh,Maḥmūd AU - ʻAkash,Munīr AU - Forché,Carolyn TI - Unfortunately, it was paradise: selected poems SN - 0520237536 (alk. paper) AV - PJ7820.A7 A22 2003 U1 - 892/.716 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Poets, Palestinian Arab KW - Poetry, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Class of Spring 2013 KW - Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow KW - Fellow N1 - From Fewer roses (1986) -- I will slog over this road -- Another road in the road -- Were it up to me to begin again -- On this earth -- I belong there -- Addresses for the soul, outside this place -- Earth presses against us -- We journey towards a home -- We travel like all people -- Athens airport -- I talk too much -- We have the right to love Autumn -- The last train has stopped -- On the slope, higher than the sea, they slept -- He embraces his murderer -- Winds shift against us -- Neighing on the slope -- Other barbarians will come -- They would love to see me dead -- When the martyrs go to sleep -- The night there -- We went to Aden -- Another Damascus in Damascus -- The flute cried -- In this hymn -- From I see what I want to see (1993) -- The hoopoe -- From Why have you left the horse alone? (1995) -- I see my ghost coming from afar -- A cloud in my hands -- The kindhearted villagers -- The owl's night -- The everlasting Indian fig -- the lute of Ismael -- The strangers' picnic -- The raven's ink -- Like the letter "n" in the Qur'an -- Ivory combs -- The death of the phoenix -- Poetic regulations -- Excerpts from the byzantine odes of Abu Firas -- The dreamers pass from one sky to another -- A rhyme for the odes (Mu'allaqat) -- Night that overflows my body -- The gypsy woman has a tame sky -- From a bed for the stranger (1999) -- We were without a present -- Sonnet II -- The stranger finds himself in the stranger -- The land of the stranger, the serene land -- Inanna's milk -- Who am I, without exile? -- Lesson from the Kama Sutra -- Mural (2000) -- Mural -- Three poems (before 1986) -- A soldier dreams of white tulips -- As fate would have it -- Four personal addresses UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2002068454.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/2002068454.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ucal041/2002068454.html ER -