I Belong There

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Carolyn Forche and Munir Akash.

Full poem can be found here.

An excellent source of additional background on Darwish is Fady Joudah’s article at the Academy of American Poets website: Along the Border: On Mahmoud Darwish.

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