Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

It may not lead us far to argue for a definite schema to measure al-Baymtl’s poetry. It is fair to say that until the 1970s, the ...

Exile and the universal in poetry The wound cannot be healed by itself, for there must be a personal effort to enable the poetic ...

louder, until he “vanquished the filth and his torturers.”^100 Indeed, Hikmet’s poems from prison left a clear impression on al- ...

combination. Author and text join forces, and they are the same. In Nuxnx sharqiyyah(Oriental Texts 1999), text 23 reiterates: I ...

an entity that challenges coercion but tries to penetrate deep inside, as this is its space of influence and challenge. As the a ...

able to create. Hikmet’s “pot of honey” is the poem that interacts with al-Baymtl’s poetry. The latter writes: Take my steed The ...

writers who constitute a substantial part of the dominating discourse. Al-Baymtlis not as direct. After the negative criticism a ...

occupying the mind of revolution.”^114 To replace this artificiality with music, the poet has to pass through some transfigurati ...

With which I linger along We both are to die in this accursed exile So why father Do you beget a blind gypsy horse That doesn’t ...

masks, and this community offers more than succor and a home. Speaking in his own voice, he says: I call on you Alberti! And poe ...

The Sufi text regained In order to identify with al->allmj (858–922 CE), the Abbasid Sufi who was decapitated and burned,^121 ...

close the gates of exile with assertions. On the contrary, they are left open, acting as channels and openings that accommodate ...

Carrying my death along with me A vagrant, with no food and water, Whenever the Euphrates changes direction My soul, settling do ...

Despite the poetic formulations that al-Baymtlinvents and contrives, exile exerts an enormous pressure on his sensitive soul. Ho ...

and the abstract, the local and the universal, interweave as if to fight back the impinging recollection of the past. There is n ...

the rain” (Ibid. 201). The hole in his memory will continue as long as Lmrm, in her symbolic extension, is not here, leaving him ...

When metamorphosing in Ibn cArabl’s “cAyn al-Shams” (Eye of the Sun), otherwise, al-Nizmm, Ishtar, or cM’ishah is the needed spr ...

Bustmn cM’ishah(Aisha’s Orchard 1989), collapsing notions and significations to applaud the very position of sacrifice as exempl ...

“The Eye of the Sun” disappear too, leaving him in utter despair, “weeping in the river of loneliness and the times of strangers ...

lies behind the intricacy of his poetics: On the sidewalks of exile I arise after death To be born in unborn cities And to die.^ ...