Poems for Them

About this book

Between the covers of this book, you do not merely read composed verses but enter the midst of an exceptional existential experience attempting to answer the question of beauty and love in their most complex splendor. 'Poems for Them' is a bridge stretched between two eras and two worlds, where the vertical poem meets with its classical stateliness and grandeur the daring modernity of abstract art. Poet Yasser Younes takes us on a journey through thirty-two poems, in which woman is not merely a subject of flirtation but the axis and the destination, 'Eve who resembles life,' and 'embodied temptation' the poet wrestles to decode before autumn of age passes. The book's tone escalates from delicate romantic whisper to existential scream in the face of time, loneliness, and longing. With every poem, a painting by artist Shams Sahbani emerges to redraw meaning with color and light, in a eloquent silent dialogue that does not content itself with explanation but opens new horizons of interpretation. This work is not merely a poetry collection but a 'battle.'