Evil

By Iman Mersal,  Translation by Robyn Creswell

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Issue: Fall 2020 / Volume 96/3
Published: September 8, 2020
Iman Mersal

Iman Mersal is the author of four collections of verse and three works of prose, including How to Mend: On Motherhood and Its Ghosts (Sternberg, 2019). Her recent poetry has been published in the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among others.

Robyn Creswell

Robyn Creswell teaches comparative literature at Yale University and is author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (Princeton, 2019). He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam (New Directions, 2016) and Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell and Notes from Prison (New Directions, 2013). 

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