No one will know you tomorrow : selected poems, 2014-2024

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

Darwīsh, Najwān, (author.). Abu-Zeid, Kareem James, (translator.).

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 This definitive collection, which draws from five volumes published in Arabic as well as new unpublished work, brings to English-language readers a sweeping trove of Darwish's most powerful and urgent poetry of the last decade.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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300275469
ISBN: 0300275463
Physical Description: x, 227 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New Haven ; Yale University Press, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.