About the content of the book:
They are literary texts that vary between classical and Nabati prose and poetry, in which the heartbeats of love... joy... contemplation... silence... and sadness... are evident for the most beautiful years of life, the greatest joy, the happiest feeling, the most pain, and the bitterest sadness. .
The collection “The Hidden One Who Survives Interpretation” includes 28 poems, some of which are short and some are long, and deals with emotional, national, philosophical and contemplative issues. The relationship with women constitutes an important axis in the collection based on the poet’s refined humane and civilized view of women. Exile also constitutes a major axis since the poet lives in exile. Many years ago. The poet also resorts to writing abstract, contemplative poems sometimes as a result of his interaction with external existence and his preoccupation with humanizing things. The collection in our hands is the eighth in the series of Anwar Al-Khatib’s poetry publications, and it comes in the context of his poetic project that aspires to establish a different language and a different, vibrant and diverse construction of the Arabic poem, so that it escapes itself from routine, repetition, and rigid templates.
Before thirty
Before Thirty is a short text that tells the story of several people who went through different circumstances and paradoxes. Life takes a turn for heroes several times, and they go through situations they were not prepared for, and some of them are forced to make painful decisions for themselves.
“Before this book, virginal lovers were in our imagination as pure as angels, infallible as saints. Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm comes in this book to tear the mask off the faces of virginal lovers, and to reveal, with logic and deep philosophical thought, that they were, in reality, narcissists and lustful... Nizar Qabbani