Singing on the way to the cemetery

Author's name: Aven Hamo Publisher: Al-Takween for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2024 Literary classification: Poetry Book overview: In the collection "Singing on the Way to the Cemetery" by Syrian poetess Aven Hamo, we find a poetic language that intensifies over all previous manifestations, in distancing from familiar taboos and from widespread poetic language, especially concerning feminist writing if such a thing is approved. The texts of the collection create their language in distancing from the common and similar to others, by generating subjective symbols within a larger imagination, far from ready framing. In each text, there is a structural uniqueness that negates ready-made stereotypes, and there is no single subject that can be grasped individually, as it is poetry composed of multiplicity and interaction between overlapping aspects. The novelty of this approach in the collection lies in its departure from the common and familiar in forming partial or microscopic images, and this is achieved at a higher level, in its attempt to break free from any ready-made foundation, and on the contrary, it repels it through listening to the voice of the self in generating new spaces of connections. There is another aspect that is not connected to the previous poetic foundation, but the texts also attempt to escape from the external foreign presence that is always present in Arabic free verse poetry.