Illya Abu Madi, the exile poet's collection

Author: Elias Abu Madi Classification: Literature and Poetry Publisher: Dar Al-Taqwa Year of Publication: 2013 Number of Pages: 100 Format: Paperback Brief about the book: Elias Abu Madi is a romantic dreamer poet, loved nature and sang about it in his most beautiful poetry, and saw in its calmness and splendor what satisfies his soul. He liked its simplicity and beauty and its distance from the stains and sorrows of life. So he sought comfort among its breezes, and tranquility among its views, which inspired him with wonderful images, winged imaginations, and meanings that elevate humans to the ranks of sublimity and majesty. Lebanon, in Abu Madi's view, was a precious gem among the treasures of time, a precious pearl among the pearls of the universe. No sun resembles his sun, no water is purer than his water, no mountains are more lofty than his mountains, and no plains are more fertile than his plains. And above all of this, Lebanon for Abu Madi was an openness to civilization, a human interaction, and a shared unity that molds all its sons into one melting pot with no falsehood, no disagreement, and no hatred.