Maram al-Masri è una poetessa la cui opera è caratterizzata da una scrittura diretta, senza fronzoli e con un'enfasi sul quotidiano. La sua poesia impiega metafore semplici, quasi infantili, che contrastano nettamente con le convenzioni della tradizionale poesia d'amore araba. Al-Masri scrive senza riserve di sessualità e amore, conferendo ai suoi versi una qualità fresca e inaspettata. Le sue opere, scritte principalmente in arabo ma spesso con una dimensione francese, esplorano temi come l'amore, la libertà e l'ingiustizia sociale con incrollabile onestà.
This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. These unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.
In this new collection of poems, Maram al-Masri offers herself as witness on behalf of her suffering people, speaking for those who can no longer speak, articulating with and for them the passion for liberty that is the driving force of their struggle for justice. Here is a profound, heart-wrenching lament for all victims of that terrible war, for all the numberless maimed and dead."Masri's poetry vividly encapsulates the frailty of our human condition in a brutal society. It can flay you at first reading. It is fair to see Masri as a love poet whose verse spares no truth of love's joys and mercilessness, to whose work war then came, as it tore her native Syria apart, and overwhelmed it, and her." - Ed Vulliamy, THE GUARDIAN