Description
Haneen Al-Sayegh doesn’t write “Let it be” with excessive rhetorical flourishes, but rather with a direct approach to meaning, devoid of ambiguity or embellishment. If this style of creative writing reveals anything, it reveals an aesthetic style imbued with a unique poetic sensibility, or a multifaceted style where the essential elements of life are present in all their diversity, most importantly, the relationship with the other. The other is always what propels the self to search for its lost identity. Let’s consider these allusions in the following text: “After you reminded me how to be myself/I began to speak with my own voice/And touch what was beyond the reach of my dreams/But after I gained myself/And began to be myself/I realized…/That my self is alienation without your embrace/And the warmth of my heart is cold in your absence/And that all faces are devoid of yours/And that a smile is not a universal language/And that my voice dissolves in the air/Before it reaches…” The ears/And that feeling is a sharp knife in a traveler’s backpack/And that words are elastic distances that stretch and stretch/And that I only found myself with you/To lose every trace of myself in anyone else.” In this sense, everything has aesthetic value in the details of the text written by the poet Hanin Al-Sayegh, with its events, dreams, and memories that seem linked to aesthetic situations. This allows the reader to grasp the meaning from the phrase and the poetic sentence flowing at its own pace, ultimately leading to the conclusion that a poetic text cannot be anything but connected to life, the self, and experience. The collection includes poems and prose pieces under the following titles: “A Stray Word,” “The Chemistry of Absence,” “Introversion,” “Wait for Me,” “The Smooth Monotony of Noise,” “A Fish That Sleeps Within It Cities,” “If,” “A Bird in the Air Conditioner,” “The Unit of Measurement for Longing,” “Our Date Has a Tax,” (…) and other titles.
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