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Can you (be frank) love her? Or do you feel shame like Zeus’ reins on your forehead? How is your life? Are you healthy? How do you sing? How do you deal with the pain of an undying conscience, poor man? How is your life with a piece of market stuff, at a steep price. After Carrara marble; how is your life with the dust of 25 30 35 2 3 A n A t t e m p t a t J e a l o u s y plaster now? ) How do you live with one of a thousand women after Lilith? references to them as spirits or souls may also suggest that any love between them will be nonphysical.
His encyclopaedic knowledge does not appear on the surface of his poetry, but functions as a solid foundation for his deceptively simple lyrics. Though Saadi Youssef has been translated into English before and published in anthologies, journals, and literary supplements, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face, is the first booklength collection of his poetry. The translator, Khaled Mattawa, has selected poems from the various collections of Saadi Youssef and arranged them in chronological order, covering more than four decades, from 1955 to 1997.
Saadi’s attitude to tradition is critical but not hostile; his poetics is that of transformation, not rupture. Many of his poems are autobiographical fragments presented in lyrical flashes. Having been detained, he presents the experience of captivity in his short poem ‘‘In Their Hands’’ (1956) . . This short poem condenses the political philosophy of the poet, which can be paraphrased as when you are repressed (thrown and roughly handled) think of the noble cause (Basra). The poet’s city is a synecdoche for the homeland, and the homeland is associated with ‘‘sun, bread, and love’’.