If I Were a Cup

About this book

If I Were a Cup grows from a lover's wish to escape separation by becoming an ordinary object held close by the beloved. Said Jamal Eddine turns that impossible transformation into a sequence of poems about yearning, emotional surrender, and the cost of proximity. Addressed to Aliya, the collection gives language to those who have loved across distance and felt longing enter the blood. Its paradox remains central: the poems urge the reader to remain wholly oneself even as desire imagines dissolving every boundary between self and beloved.