Four Poems 
Walid Khazendar
translated by Tom Paulin
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Walid Khazendar was awarded the Palestine Prize for Poetry in 1997. Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.