No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Frontmatter
	Contents
	Translatorʼs Introduction
	■  From A Chair on the Walls of Acre
	The Waves of Acre
	What More Could I Want?
	Tal al- Samak
	In Natureʼs 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 Playerʼs 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 Youʼre 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 Academyʼs Library
	In the Café
	In the Lie
	The Water Doesnʼt Remember
	I Know This Sea
	Lightning Writes Poetry
	In Rabatʼs Night
	I Wonʼt 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 Donʼt 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 Baroudʼs 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 Üsküdar” 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
	Sousanʼs Mirror
	Tarjīʻ- 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
	Iʼve Oft en Told You
	Breaking Dishes
	A Variation on a Verse by Al- Maʼarri
	After Youʼve Worked Like a Slave
	From the Void
	Sanāsil
	The River
	I Said Iʼd Run
	The Last Mask
	For the Sake of Some New Terror
	Iʼve 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
	Translatorʼs Notes
	Credits
	Translatorʼs Acknowledgments