A lonely dinner for my only soul

Book name: Solitary Dinner for My Only Soul Author: Abdul Wahab Abu Zeid Publisher: Khutut wa Zilal Book classification: Novel Number of pages: 174 About the book: How this poetry soared me to the highest heavens and returned to throw me from the top of a tall mountain. How I kept asking myself, wrapped in the cloak of confusion: who among us is the created, and who among us is the Creator? In his solitary dinner, in which he offers his body’s bread and his blood’s wine to his reader, poet Abu Zeid places his collection in an apparent structure consisting of an introduction followed by a definition of the poem that hints at his view on the condition for it to be honored with belonging to poetry, under the title "Desperate attempts to define the poem." - Al-Muthanna Sheikh Atiyah "Poet Abdul Wahab's speech in his new collection. It belongs to poetry that guards the fragility of the world (according to an excerpted expression). And he can truly only guard himself from his successive breakdowns. It is human poetry like a herbal bandage. The universe dances within it, joyful and sorrowful." - Hassan Al-Joudi