A Grace Period

About this book

Mohamed Abdel Moneim writes from the shore of farewell, where the mind pretends to forget while the heart breaks in silence. Loss becomes an equation more difficult than any chemistry, and the absent wave is awaited despite the certainty that it will not return. A Grace Period moves through grief, solitude, tears, and the masks people wear to appear composed. Its poems acknowledge helplessness before separation without turning sorrow into spectacle. The collection gives language to the period in which life continues but the self has not yet learned how.