Wait for Me by the Edge of the Sea
Yusuf al-Sayigh (1933-2006)
I hear my lover’s voice calling me tonight
wait for my worry
I am going to the water
to pull my shawl over the eye..
Emily Drumsta is a Ph.D. student and Jacob K. Javits fellow in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include modern Arabic poetry, literature in French and Arabic from the Maghreb, postcolonial theory, and translation studies. She is co-managing editor of and frequent contributor to Tahrir Documents, an online archive which publishes translations of papers and pamphlets collected at demonstrations in Cairo from 25 January 2011 to the present. Her translations have previously been published in Circumference magazine.