Aghdu and the Larks in Their Metaphor

About this book

Between the clamor of modernity and the silence of the desolate desert, the poet Abdel-Rahim Hadda opens in his collection "Aghdu and the Larks in Their Metaphor" a window onto parallel worlds, where the mythical meets the everyday, and the technical meets the Bedouin in a wondrous poetic blend. This work is no mere arranged words, but an investigative journey into the "black hole" of human existence, in which the writer attempts to restore the light that lost its way since the Big Bang. The poems here dance to the rhythms of the heritage "knee art," and the scent of flatbread and oasis perfume wafts from them, reshaping identity against the onslaught of "the spotted technology" that stole the soul. The poet moves skillfully between the symbols of history, from Ishtar and Inanna to Ziryab and Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, transforming tragedy into an anchor, and bleeding into eternal ink immortalizing pain and beauty at once. In "Aghdu and the Larks in Their Metaphor," poetry becomes "the Tigris of the Two Rivers" that never runs dry, and the scream confronting the ugliness of wars and the loss of childhood. It is.