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Banquet of Mercy for the Universe: Selected poems from Hanane Aad's poetry, originally written in Arabic
By Hanane Aad and Peter Waugh
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I am the child of time, I say:
Time tastes of the most delicious wine,
we drink it, and it drinks us,
we and time await
our drunkenness together,
till the angel of indulgence,
wholly unembarrassed,
crosses our melancholy foreheads.
"Her poetry embodies a feeling of nihilism or absurdity, but in a positive sense, stimulating creation and innovation instead of death and surrender. This is the fruit of a transparent and sincere monologue, indicating the power of the heart and the power of the soul. The meditative inclination in Hanane Aad's verse may be founded on a strategy of her poetical writing to bring the abstract down from its throne to the level of the concrete and non absolute, in order to humanize what is abstract and to set up a possible dialogue with life, or the passing age, at least within the poem."
- Jihad Hudeib, Amman, October 2004
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTexianer Verlag
Release dateMay 6, 2022
ISBN9798201782382
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Banquet of Mercy for the Universe - Hanane Aad
Banquet of Mercy for the Universe
This volume contains selected poems from the following collections of Hanane Aad’s poetry, originally written in Arabic:
My Freedom I Carry in My Mouth, Dergham Editions, Beirut, Lebanon, 2010
Pearls of the Soul Riding Virtue, Al-Ibdaa Editions, Beirut, Lebanon, 2005
Like a Grain of Wheat, Kleudge Editions, Beirut, Lebanon, 1998
Hanane Aad
Banquet of Mercy for the Universe
Banquet of Mercy for the Universe
© 2022 Hanane Aad
English translation © 2015 Peter Waugh and Hanane Aad
Texianer Verlag
Tuningen, Germany
www.texianer.com
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For
my father and my mother
Contents
Lay Down Your Arms
!
Part 1
The Mill of the Soul
Part 2
Wish
Hymn for a Love
Purple Compassion
A Rainbow in Your Veins
Nature’s Tenderness
Part 3
The Orbits of the Soul
Who Will Buy Me Certainty?
Self-Sacrifice
Madness
The Dance of Destiny
Refuge
Part 4
Elevation
The Violin of Absence
Banquet of Mercy for the Universe
Part 5
Hallucination
The Feral Darkness
The Tools of Patience
The Pulse of Eternity
A Scarf for the Soul
Tent of the Light
Part 6
Love’s Spark
The Child of Time
Part 7
A Pearl from her Hand
The Poets’ Mercy
Appendix
About Hanane Aad
About Hanane Aad’s Poetry
Lay Down Your Arms
!
POETRY. PEACE. Poetry starts with the letter P. Peace starts with the same letter. Poetry might be the language of the soul. Peace might be the soul of the universe. Is it simply a coincidence that the two words both start with the same letter, with P? I think not. Then P is the common starting letter for POETRY and PEACE. However, the word power also starts with the letter P. POETRY, PEACE, POWER. Poetry might be the power of peace. Peace might be the power of poetry. The power of poetry might bring peace. The power of peace might bring poetry. Poetry might empower peace. How can poetry empower peace? How
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