Exhausted on the CrossBy: Najwan Darwish A much anticipated follow up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature. We drag histories behind us, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, here where theres neither land nor sky. In pared down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu Zeid, Darwish records what Ral Zurita describes as