No One Will Know You Tomorrow Selected Poems, 20142024

A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English   “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 This definitive collection, which draws from five volumes published in Arabic as well as new unpublished work, brings to English-language readers a sweeping trove of Darwish’s most powerful and urgent poetry of the last decade.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