Visual poetic formation

Book name: Visual Poetic Formation Author: Mohamed Saber Obeid Publishing house: Khutut wa Zilal Book classification: Novel Number of pages: 176 About the book: That the poet is a painter or the painter is a poet, that is a virtue that elevates the status of both arts to the highest possible ranks in poetry and painting, and a question may come to mind here about this relationship, which one is earlier, which one is higher, and which one is more influential on the other. There is no doubt that the answer will not be easy at all because the relationship remains somewhat of a beautiful enchanting ambiguity that does not give itself easily; or rather, it does not give itself in the end except in the context of a precise understanding of the problematic of this relationship, its fluctuations, and its detailed nuances. For the poem, as for the painting, has a presence in the aesthetic taste of the artistic reception community in general. What concerns us precisely and specifically here is how the waters of the visual arts seep into the oasis of poetry to a certain degree, in order to irrigate, supply, and satiate it with the available detailed artistic potentials with a distinctive visual characteristic to reach a high poetic aesthetic state. It is not possible for the poem alone to reach this without sensitivity to this relationship at this level of interaction and influence. If the poem is based on lyricism at the highest levels of its poetic linguistic and visual formation, then the visual influences and others grant this lyrical existence greater energy to expand the boundaries of the poetic and deepen the effectiveness of its textual cohesion.