No one will know you tomorrow : selected poems, 2014-2024 / Najwan Darwish ; translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darwīsh, Najwān, author.

Contributor:

Abu-Zeid, Kareem James, translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Darwīsh, Najwān--Translations into English.

Darwīsh, Najwān.

Arabic poetry--Palestine--Translations into English.

Arabic poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]

Summary:

A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English.

"Born in Jerusalem in 1978, Najwan Darwish is one of the most important poets of the Arabic-speaking world. This definitive collection, which draws from five volumes published in Arabic as well as new unpublished work, brings to English-language readers a sweeping trove of Darwish's most powerful and urgent poetry of the last decade. In spare lyric verse, Darwish testifies to the brutal and intimate traumas of war, the anguished fatigue of waking up each morning in an occupied land, and the immeasurable toll of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While anchored in the geography of Palestine, his poetry also explores the rich artistic inheritance of the Arabic-speaking world, moving between regions, landscapes, and eras, from the glories of medieval Granada to the rippling shores of contemporary Haifa. In dialogue with poets, philosophers, and seekers from many different traditions, Darwish's verse pulses with spiritual longing and a sense of battered, disoriented wonder--a witness to both the atrocities we visit upon one another and the miracle that we are here at all. No One Will Know You Tomorrow is a tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit: its sensitive attunement to beauty and its endurance in the face of unspeakable tragedy."--Front flap.

Contents:

Translator's Introduction

FROM A CHAIR ON THE WALLS OF ACRE. The Waves of Acre

What More Could I Want?

Tal al-Samak

In Nature's Cell

Citizens of Dust

Embrace

A Mere Mortal

Villagers Reflecting on Joy

A Verse by Hafez Ibrahim on the Shore of Haifa

Words for Wadi Salib

Not This Cup

Tormented by Joy

Days of Hell

Waiting

Balad al-Shaykh

A Riding Song with Badawi al-Jabal

You Said

The Hell of My People

In the Beginning

In Abandonment

In Oblivion

Fate

Hardly Breathe

Quietly Returning

I Never Knew

A Notebook

An Ottoman Tune

Near the Shrine of Saint Naum

The Piano Player's Strokes

Lost

Obrigado

In Praise of Experience

A Sun Outside of Tragedy

Light cannot be held

A sentence in the swelter of contemplation

Mountains crumble in my head

I want these words to take me back thirty years

The paper kite

The Poem of Returning Home

Life Review at Thirty-Seven

As for My Singing

FROM WITH EVERY STORM THAT COMES: A SEASON IN LONDON. A Dinner Invitation

While You're Waiting at the End

On the Way to Tipaza

Recalling a Tryst in a Park

You Think of a House

With Every Storm That Comes

A Wave of People

Just Like Them

Mercilessly

I Had a Word

Blink of an Eye

To That Room

Home

Dissatisfied

The Last Day

In Despair

A Distant Country

We Never Stop

FROM DISCOURSES

FROM YOU ARE NOT A POET IN GRANADA. Rise, Granada

You Are Not a Poet in Granada

I Write the Land

A New Notebook

You Say That

I Hunt the Breeze

As a Vagabond

Reading Uyoun Al-Akhbar in the Language Academy's Library

In the Café

In the Lie

The Water Doesn't Remember

I Know This Sea

Lightning Writes Poetry

In Rabat's Night

I Won't Go Back

An Afternoon in Albaicín

An Algerian Nuba

From One Country to Another

Early Riser

A Morning Note for the Paradise of Carmel

I Heard Him Sing

In the Colony

I Don't Claim

The Country Contrabass

A Brief Commentary on "Literary Success"

The Interrogation

I Bear Only Smoke

I Remember Umar

As If Talking to Myself

Citizens of the Tristes Tropiques

Out of the Depths

Forever Roaming

A Conversation with Faris Baroud's Mother in the Al-Shati Camp

Take Me, Drag Me Away

Land

The Shelling Ended

FROM EXHAUSTED ON THE CROSS. Mount Carmel

In Shatila

Elegy for a Sleeping Child

Because of a Woman

A Short Story About the Closing of the Sea

Exhausted on the Cross

Enough

All of It

My Defeated Banner

"A BREEZE FROM ÜSK̈UDAR" AND OTHER POEMS. Boy

Witnessing Abandonment

While Speaking About an Earthquake in Istanbul

Abandonment and a Home

Nurtured by the Hand of God

Late

Like Everyone Else

The Day Leaves You

In Response to a Poet Who Dreams of Glory

A Breeze from Üsküdar

Sousan's Mirror

Tarjī'-Band

Sleep

FROM WEARY OF WALKING IN THE BARZAKH. I Often Dream

At a Poetry Festival

Buildings

I Saw Trees

A Visitor from Hell

A Fleeting Slaughter

This Darkness

The New Year

In Captivity

No One

The Thieves

Take This Waltz

Hills of Thorns

A City Quartet

Someone There

I've Often Told You

Breaking Dishes

A Variation on a Verse by Al-Ma'arri

After You've Worked Like a Slave

From the Void

Sanāsil

The River

I Said I'd Run

The Last Mask

For the Sake of Some New Terror

I've Tried So Many Times

Psalm

Little Malta

A Hand on a Desk

Two Quills

A Trace in the Sand

A Song for Hell

Rooms

A Special Thanks

A Portrait of Badia Masabni in Chtoura

The Face of a Friend

A Younger Boy

If You Only Knew

A Forgotten Poem About Friendship

A Long Scar

A Single Sentence

Endless.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780300275469

0300275463

OCLC:

1428037338