Ghassan Zaqtan
Ghassan Zaqtan is perhaps the most important Palestinian poet writing today. He is also an novelist, playwright and editor. Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me is the first translation of his poetry in English. It received the Griffin International Poetry prize in 2013.
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Handkerchief
Ghassan Zaqtan
‘Nothing’s left to say between us / everything went / into the train that hid its whistle.’