No One Will Know You Tomorrow - Najwan Darwish

A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into EnglishFinalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation • Finalist for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry • Winner of the 2024 Big Other Readers’ Choice Award • Shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Heaney Prize • Longlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award for Poetry, sponsored by American Literary Translators Association“An unvarnished view of war and its repercussions: fear, dread, devastation, and exile.”—Elisabeth Egan, New York Times Book Review 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 This definitive collection, which draws from five volumes published in Arabic as well as new unpublished work, brings to English-language readers a sweeping trove of Darwish’s most powerful and urgent poetry of the last decade.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 poe
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