Golan Haji is a Syrian Kurdish poet and translator who now lives in Paris. His latest poetry collection, A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, was published by A Midsummer Night’s Press in 2017. His most recent translation into Arabic is Alberto Manguel’s Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2017)
Author note: These poems are part of a longer sequence that Golan and I collaborated on for my new collection, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. All the poems are ba…