"Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland, suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. But his poems, too, display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his friends Rema Hammami and John Berger present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works, his epic...

Salim Barakat, the captivating Kurdish-Syrian poet and novelist known for his mastery of Arabic style, is hailed as an enigmatic and intricate figure in contemporary Arabic literature. In The Universe, All at Once, he curates, in collaboration with translator Huda J. Fakhreddine, a selection from his later works, considering them the pinnacle of his poetic career. Drawn from pieces composed between 2021 and 2023, the poems in this collection vary...