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Author's name: Omar Tahir

“Short, intense poems with complex visions, in which life’s contradictions are compressed into a capsule charged with great poetic and intellectual energy, like a genie in a bottle... touching the heart and saturating the mind with a rare intellectual richness that I consider to be Omar Taher’s essential contribution.” - Bahaa Jahin Omar Taher says of this collection: “After twenty years, I try to contemplate the author of these poems through what he has written. I envy a young man in his late twenties for his boldness and courage to write poetry as he sees it, to say it in his own way and not pay attention, to wander the streets for hours searching for the thin line separating ordinary speech from the fruit of poetry, and to test the world around him with what he writes.” A special edition commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the publication of this distinguished collection – which has long been out of print. It contains several previously unpublished texts.