Love is a wicked wolf a leash in intimacy and wolfishness

Description

This collection restores the brilliance of Arabic love poetry, not merely as poetry of romance, but as poetry of life and overwhelming emotions, set in an epic, operatic atmosphere. In it, untamed passion seems to be the very spirit of this love, as it is the spirit of the place in which it moves, the spirit of the surrounding nature, and the spirit of that repressed emotion that humanity insists on burying within itself.

Ibrahim Nasrallah employs the metaphor of the she-wolf and the wolf, the protagonists of this work, in poems that form a tempestuous, epic love story. Here, the beauty of love intersects with its violence, its gentle breezes with its storms, and the being’s yearning to be captivated by love with its longing for freedom from it. Birth within love becomes the highest form of rebirth and existence, thus intersecting with the great questions of destiny that trouble the individual as they discover the world, or rather, discover themselves, before this tempest. “Love is Evil” is one of those rare literary works that one cannot read and emerge unchanged. Here, one is inevitably swept away by its waves, experiencing a unique longing, no less powerful or sweet than the moment of encounter and merging—a madness reaching its zenith. For as much as it is tangible and sensory, it is also spiritual and mystical.

This experience, whose freshness lies in its expression of a deep, intimate realm of the human soul, is rendered in a wild and unrestrained language. It imbues Arabic poetry with a bold, fiery flavor, proving that poetry remains capable of delivering the astonishing and captivating, seizing the reader’s soul, opening new doors, and compelling them to reassemble and reflect upon their life as they experience a unique love story across the four parts of the collection: *Love is Evil*, *Opera of the Wolves*, *Shadows of the She-Wolf*, and *Ignites*.