{"id":36710,"date":"2025-04-22T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=36710"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:04:33","slug":"three-poems-by-najwan-darwish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/three-poems-by-najwan-darwish\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poems by Najwan Darwish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Najwan Darwish&#8217;s new book <em>No One Will Know You Tomorrow<\/em> is a selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English by poet-translator Kareem Abu Zeid. Finalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34290\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1101\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-600x32.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-300x16.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-1024x55.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-768x41.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1101px) 100vw, 1101px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h4>Najwan Darwish<\/h4>\n<p>The poet in his own words, on poetry, love and loss.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-ef211d536848515d49a23ad8dcc0c4c2 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Najwan Darwish\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1077602238?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Three poems from <em>No One Will Know You Tomorrow<\/em>, translated from Arabic by Kareem Abu Zeid. 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\u2019s most powerful and urgent poetry of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s verse pulses with spiritual longing and a sense of battered, disoriented wonder\u2014a witness to both the atrocities we visit upon one another and the miracle that we are here at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>No One Will Know You Tomorrow<\/em>\u00a0is a tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit: its sensitive attunement to beauty and its endurance in the face of unspeakable tragedy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36714\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300275469\/no-one-will-know-you-tomorrow\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36714\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/No-One-Will-Know-You-Tomorrow-Najwan-Darwish-9780300275469.jpeg\" alt=\"No One Will Know You Tomorrow is published by Yale.\" width=\"500\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/No-One-Will-Know-You-Tomorrow-Najwan-Darwish-9780300275469.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/No-One-Will-Know-You-Tomorrow-Najwan-Darwish-9780300275469-600x930.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/No-One-Will-Know-You-Tomorrow-Najwan-Darwish-9780300275469-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/No-One-Will-Know-You-Tomorrow-Najwan-Darwish-9780300275469-661x1024.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/No-One-Will-Know-You-Tomorrow-Najwan-Darwish-9780300275469-768x1190.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>No One Will Know You Tomorrow<\/em> is published by <a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300275469\/no-one-will-know-you-tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yale<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\nA Verse by Hafez Ibrahim<br \/>\non the Shore of Haifa<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like a kid in third grade whose teacher was murdered,<br \/>\nI walked in the darkness,<br \/>\nabandoned on the shore after midnight,<br \/>\ncrying out:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m the sea, and the pearls are hidden within me.<br \/>\nDid they ask the divers about my shells?\u201d<br \/>\nI kept shouting it,<br \/>\nwaiting for the gods to hear me:<br \/>\n\u201cI&#8217;m the sea,<br \/>\nand the pearls are hidden within me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My teacher was murdered<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll keep reciting the verse, hopelessly,<br \/>\nuntil the gods hear me<br \/>\nand reply.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sad<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m not afraid<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ve been abandoned on a dark shore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m the sea, and the pearls<br \/>\nare hidden within me.\u201d<br \/>\nDo the shells feel pride?<br \/>\nDo the fish remember<br \/>\nthe ship&#8217;s melodies?<br \/>\nAnd what sea is this<br \/>\ncoming at me<br \/>\ndressed like a trusted advisor:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;ll arrest you if you keep screaming in Arabic.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll open fire.<br \/>\nStop it, please: I&#8217;m tired of your blood<br \/>\nspilling on my shore.\u201d<br \/>\nWho would I be if I stopped?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll keep on\u2014<br \/>\neven if the gods hear me,<br \/>\neven if they reply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Days of Hell<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>While we were in hell<br \/>\nwe couldn&#8217;t say<br \/>\nthat we were in hell,<br \/>\nand that was the worst of it.<\/p>\n<p>To this very moment<br \/>\nit still seems so absurd\u2014<br \/>\nour belated confession.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\nWe Never Stop<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I have no country to return to,<br \/>\nno country to be banished from,<br \/>\na tree whose roots<br \/>\nare a running river:<br \/>\nit dies if it stops,<br \/>\nit dies if it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>On the cheeks and arms of death<br \/>\nI spend the best of my days,<br \/>\nand the land I lost each day<br \/>\nI gained each day and you.<br \/>\nThe people had a single country,<br \/>\nbut mine multiplied in loss,<br \/>\nrenewed itself in absence.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s roots, like mine, or water:<br \/>\nIf it stops it withers,<br \/>\nif it stops it dies.<br \/>\nBoth of us are running<br \/>\nwith a river of sunbeams,<br \/>\na river of gold dust<br \/>\nthat rises from ancient wounds,<br \/>\nand we never stop.<br \/>\nWe keep on,<br \/>\nnever thinking to pause,<br \/>\nso our two paths can meet.<\/p>\n<p>I have no country to be banished from,<br \/>\nno country to return to:<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll die if I stop,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll die if I keep 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