A Suicide Incident

About this book

Between this work's covers you read no mere words, but trace the footsteps of a soul that decided to leave its last mark on existence's wall before departing. "A Suicide Incident" is no invitation to the end, but an exhaustive inspection of the reasons for staying, and a poetic embodiment of those fragile moments when man stands on the edge, torn between a memory of flowers and a reality of dust. Walid Abu Awad takes us on an intensely personal emotional journey, where jasmine's fragrance mingles with death's smell, and colors on the tormented painter's "Rabbam" canvas turn into silent screams. Here we meet one who loved until his soul melted in the details of an absent face, trying to summon it with brush and dagger, in a wondrous dialectic between love and loss. The poems in this collection are no mere verses; they are "the daylight's philosophy" reshaping itself to face the night's darkness, an attempt to prove that the heart, even at the peak of its fracture, keeps searching for "a sky of startling clarity." It is a work diving into contradiction's philosophy; between luminous skin and.