Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah was born in Damascus in 1956. He attracted attention with his debut collection of poems, "The Boy", published in Beirut in 1982 and has become an influential poetic voice on the Arab literary scene. Since 1986 he has lived in London, publishing 14 further collections, and founding and editing a number of Arabic literary magazines. His poetry draws on diverse cultural sources, and is marked by a special focus on mythology, folk tales and legends. Selected poems have been translated into a number of Asian and European languages, and some collections have been published in French, Spanish and Farsi.
Cette anthologie poétique couvre l’œuvre de Nouri al-Jarrah, grand poète syrien, de 1988 à 2019. Le livre s’ouvre sur les écrits les plus récents, de longs poèmes en plusieurs chants, inspirés notamment de la mythologie grecque, et marqués par la tragédie syrienne, pour aboutir à...
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