The Intimacy of Letters

About this book

Between this work's covers dwell souls never leaving their first pavements, and letters written with nostalgia's ink in that distance separating two thousand-line hemistiches. "The Intimacy of Letters" is no mere poetry collection, but a visual and emotional memory of life's stations; beginning from the magic of eyes and the palm groves' enchantress, passing through "Samahij's" ancient alleys, where the rain's smell caresses palm fronds and the waves' sound plays a lyre among the oyster shells. Mitham Massoud takes you on an emotional journey transcending paper's bounds, where the letter becomes a mihrab and words silent psalms. You will find yourself at times a child cutting his way between winter roads and boys' laughter, and at times a lover standing before a mute mural reading in it the details of a face gone behind the waiting horizon. In this book pain fuses with beauty, and silence turns into a complete language needing no alphabet, for the years to wake under an overwhelming nostalgia for the land of sails and palms. It is an invitation to break free from the present's gloomy din toward nature's stillness.