Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet, novelist, and editor. Born in Bethlehem, he has lived in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English based in Barcelona. He has translated several novels and prose works into English, including Haytham El Wardany’s The Book of Sleep, Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, Iman Mersal’s Traces of Enayat, and Ghassan Zaqtan’s Strangers in Light Coats.

“Astonishingly powerful. . . Zaqtan conjures shifting degrees of historical depth, like a ruined house where some corridors go and go and go while others suddenly shut, the family portrait rendered mute, or even falling apart in one’s hands; continuity is never a certain thing, here, and the effort of remembering seems vast. Yet remembering must be done.”

• Part One: The Bedroom Poems [I Expand My Solitude in Remembering]Part Two: A Stone with Wings [I Walk and the Air Sculpts Me]Part Three: The Town I Never Told You About [I Open the Window; the Trees Cry Out in the Valley]Part Four: Annex and Revisions

Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet, novelist, and editor. Born in Bethlehem, he has lived in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English based in Barcelona. He has translated several novels and prose works into English, including Haytham El Wardany’s The Book of Sleep, Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, Iman Mersal’s Traces of Enayat, and Ghassan Zaqtan’s Strangers in Light Coats.

“Astonishingly powerful. . . Zaqtan conjures shifting degrees of historical depth, like a ruined house where some corridors go and go and go while others suddenly shut, the family portrait rendered mute, or even falling apart in one’s hands; continuity is never a certain thing, here, and the effort of remembering seems vast. Yet remembering must be done.”

• Part One: The Bedroom Poems [I Expand My Solitude in Remembering]Part Two: A Stone with Wings [I Walk and the Air Sculpts Me]Part Three: The Town I Never Told You About [I Open the Window; the Trees Cry Out in the Valley]Part Four: Annex and Revisions