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22-01-2007
Palestinian poets win Poetic Diversity Awards
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Texas, USA (SAEN):Two Palestinian poets — considered among the great living voices of poetry — have been recognized with the Poetic Diversity Awards from the Latitudes Foundation for "significant yet overlooked books of poetry" published in 2006. Mahmoud Darwish (born 1942) and Samih Al-Qasim (born 1939) have had comparatively few poems published in English, although their work in Arabic has been translated into 40 languages. Darwish's "Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?" (translated by Jeffrey Sacks) and Al-Qasim's "Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems" (translated by Nazih Kassis) afford us a rare chance to contemplate these extraordinary poets in lucid translations.
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