A River Dies of ThirstMahmoud Darwish (trans. Catherine Cobham) This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish"s last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish"s musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns

in the vein of Kenneth Patchen’s The Journal Of Albion Moonlight (a personal favourite)

private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war

Dorothea Lasky

In these stray notations dated early April 1950

De tijdens zijn leven met prijzen overladen Bonnefoy (o

soms absurdistische humor sterk aanwezig

Hooft-prize

Blending fiction and essay

De kracht ligt erin dat ze in een onderkoelde stijl het dwingende beeld weet op te roepen van een hallucinaire fabriekskosmos zonder plaats of geschiedenis

engaging with Javanese literary tradition and the archives of colonial and postcolonial violence

vernacular knowledge of complex systems

and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s--so much of which still resonates today