Advances in Embroidery

Advances in Embroidery is Ahmad Al-Ashqar's first book of poems and includes his translations from Mahmoud Darwish the Palestinian national poet. It is the first book in the Sandwich Series from Poets & Traitors Press which publishes books of poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Led by its founding editor Val Vinokur Poets & Traitors emerged from the Poet/Translator Reading Series and from the New School's Literary Translation Workshop both of which draw on authors who travel between creative writing and translation--artists for whom one language is not enough and whose own utterance carries shapes and is shaped by that of another.