External before the time

What I chose was based on a mixture of personal taste and conviction—aiming to be as objective as possible—that these models are worthy of introducing the broad reader to the poetic personality of Adwan; what also requires clarification is that the selection of poems, without others, was subject to a specific technical factor: namely, replacing long poems with medium or short ones, in order to allow the greatest possible number of texts expressing the experience, in proportion to the proposed size of the selections. And I hope that these selections succeed in reminding us of a high poetic stature, represented by "Ibn al-Hayat al-Hurr," "Transcending Transcendence," bent "with the discipline of a soldier before a grain of wheat," and the observer "sad and angry, at the torn shoes of the poor," biased "toward its path filled with dust of honor"; as Mahmoud Darwish expressed in his eulogy for Adwan. External before the time—Mamdouh Adwan.