Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish

by Ahmad Al-Ashqar, Mahmoud Darwish (Contributor)

"Advances in Embroidery" is Ahmad Al-Ashqar's first book of poems and includes his translations from Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet. It is the first book in the Sandwich Series from Poets & Traitors Press, which publishes books of poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Led by its founding editor, Val Vinokur, Poets & Traitors emerged from the Poet/Translator Reading Series and from the New School’s Literary Translation Workshop, both of which draw on authors who travel between creative writing and translation––artists for whom one language is not enough and whose own utterance carries, shapes, and is shaped by that of another.

Genres: Poetry

84 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2017

Reviews

[A L]

This is fabulous from start to finish. I wouldn't mind more poetry looking like this on the page.

[⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ acéla · Rating 5 out of 5]

His words are beautiful.

[Nadia]

I don't really know how to rate poetry collections but I did enjoy this and my favourite poems from here were:

'A Damascus in Damascus', 'I am from there', 'I Do not Know your Name' and especially 'The Cypress Broke' by Mahmoud Darwish.

By Ahmad al-Ashqar I liked 'Date Bearing Phoenix', 'Big Syria Little Syria' and 'Star of Bethlehem'.

I really enjoy Darwish's poetry and would like to read more by him, I love how he portrays the Palestinian struggle by using beautifully crafted metaphors.