Hamid Saeed's Complete Poetic Works

Author's name: Hamid Saeed

Hamid Saeed is a great avant-garde poet, one of the first to leave, along with the second generation of pioneers, a very special impetus for modern poetry, always at the forefront of progress. He observes from Iraq poetry and revolution, writing and waiting freely in difficult times, concerned about the fate of humanity in writing, and writing for the highest and most refined in the nation and humanity. From “Beaches That Never Knew Warmth,” to “The Language of Clay Towers,” “Gypsy Songs,” “Fires of Presence,” and even “The Childhood of Water” and beyond, Hamid Saad’s writing searches through ritual and ceremonial anthropology for the future in the historical and the everyday, the future of all beings, including poetic beings, whose poems, signed with the spirit of revolution, childhood, homeland, and a better life, are enriched with the connotations of “the different,” which deconstructs inherited poetics, past and present alike, to reconstruct them in their deepest roots and furthest radiance and vision. When his complete works are presented to the Arab reader, we fill a void that only he and a few of the second generation can fill with the uniqueness of voice, language, and free experience that differs from the establishment of postmodern poetic writing in a tragic Arab era “unique” in its conditions, confiscation, and siege.