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Tables of Contents for Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
Munir Akash
Introduction
xv
Munir Akash
Carolyn Forche
from Fewer Roses (1986)
I Will Slog over This Road
3
1
Another Road in the Road
4
1
Were It Up to Me to Begin Again
5
1
On This Earth
6
1
I Belong There
7
1
Addresses for the Soul, outside This Place
8
1
Earth Presses against Us
9
1
We Journey towards a Home
10
1
We Travel Like All People
11
1
Athens Airport
12
1
I Talk Too Much
13
1
We Have the Right to Love Autumn
14
1
The Last Train Has Stopped
15
1
On the Slope, Higher Than the Sea, They Slept
16
1
He Embraces His Murderer
17
1
Winds Shift against Us
18
1
Neighing on the Slope
19
1
Other Barbarians Will Come
20
1
They Would Love to See Me Dead
21
1
When the Martyrs Go to Sleep
22
1
The Night There
23
1
We Went to Aden
24
1
Another Damascus in Damascus
25
1
The Flute Cried
26
1
In This Hymn
27
4
from I See What I Want to See (1993)
The Hoopoe
31
24
from Why Have You Left the Horse Alone? (1995)
I See My Ghost Coming from Afar
55
3
A Cloud in My Hands
58
3
The Kindhearted Villagers
61
2
The Owl's Night
63
2
The Everlasting Indian Fig
65
2
The Lute of Ismael
67
4
The Strangers' Picnic
71
3
The Raven's Ink
74
3
Like the Letter ``N'' in the Qur'an
77
2
Ivory Combs
79
3
The Death of the Phoenix
82
3
Poetic Regulations
85
2
Excerpts from the Byzantine Odes of Abu Firas
87
2
The Dreamers Pass from One Sky to Another
89
2
A Rhyme for the Odes (Mu'allaqat)
91
3
Night That Overflows My Body
94
2
The Gypsy Woman Has a Tame Sky
96
5
from A Bed for the Stranger (1999)
We Were without a Present
101
4
Sonnet II
105
1
The Stranger Finds Himself in the Stranger
106
2
The Land of the Stranger, the Serene Land
108
2
Inanna's Milk
110
3
Who Am I, without Exile?
113
2
Lesson from the Kama Sutra
115
4
Mural (2000)
Mural
119
46
Three Poems (before 1986)
A Soldier Dreams of White Tulips
165
4
As Fate Would Have It
169
10
Four Personal Addresses
179
4
Glossary
183