In this installment, Fady Joudah shares some of his favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading he gave following on Voca.

Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, transl. Daniel Mendelsohn 

If I Were Another, Mahmoud Darwish, trans. Fady Joudah        

Winter Numbers: Poems, Marilyn Hacker

Directed by Desire (The Collected Poems), June Jordan

she says, Vénus Khoury-Ghata

First Person Sorrowful, Ko Un

Tocqueville, Khaled Mattawa

At Passages, Michael Palmer

Diaries of Exile, Yannis Ritsos

Monochords, Yannis Ritsos

Building the Barricade and Other Poems of Anna Swir, Anna Swir, trans. Piotr Florczyk

Talking to My Body, Anna Swir, trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan

is music (Selected Poems), John Taggart

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From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.