A woman filled with jasmine.. awaited by an unarmed lover

Publisher: Arab Outreach Foundation Language: Arabic Number of pages: 126 Summary: New poetry collection by poet Samah Mahjawi, equivalent in themes to the most important dualities of human formation (man / woman), specifically within the love equation, and extending to the attribute of masculine love, as described by the poems; for the female whom, for the poet, surpasses the barriers of time, place, and prevailing culture. "He takes her to visionary, dreamy interpretative horizons crowded with play, fun, and love of life within an extended space where he unites with the other." The poet says: "I will write about her eyes / not for her treacherous master / 'a passing' who overflows / when the clouds are abundant in the bellies / for a plow turned to its carved mud / from the sweat of the forehead / to an axe / in Your name, O Allah / it opens what remains of the fortresses / (...)". The book includes poems in modern Arabic poetry under the following titles: "Her laughter," "I write to age my death," "This is the interpretation of the lover," "Is it for this?," "The Resurrection," "Marble upon marble," "You and I are the last to know," "A gasp and rain falls," (...) and other poems.