Imagination

About this book

Imagination is not a collection meant to be closed and forgotten on a shelf. It is a direct poetic confession, a window onto a world measured not by noise but by the whisper that enters through the cracks of the heart. Essam Abushawish writes from the conviction that poetry is the soul speaking only when it has loved, longed, grieved, wept, and endured. His poems transform sorrow into music and silence into a restrained cry, moving between the radiance of lasting love and the cruelty of abandonment. The collection also reaches beyond private romance toward questions of existence and homeland, linking a mother's love with Palestine and asking whether the heart and the nation can be saved separately. For readers acquainted with repeated loss, these poems present imagination as a humane refuge—and poetry as something lived and breathed rather than merely written.