This small book of poetry is my first revelation of the desire to write, and my first encounter with the mirrors of aesthetic pleasure. It is like the first kiss in the history of a mouth, snatched by a lover from his beloved's lips. And how delicate is that first kiss snatched by a poet from the lips of a poem!

In the name of authentic critical consciousness, I invite my readers to read me within the geographical confines of the page, beyond the archaeology of the earth and the architecture of cement. Let my trial, if you will, be a critical one that draws on the law of metaphor, excavating the depths of the text for the treasure of aesthetics, rather than floating like a cork on the surface in search of jurisprudential interpretations.

Yes, there is a prevalence of the theme of sex in this collection, but it is a poetic sex, not a sexual one. A sex that transcends sexuality, sublime like the nudity of a Greek statue of a naked goddess, elevated by refined language and cultivated aesthetics in an age of bare sex and arrogant, animalistic nudity.

Rather, there is an effort to curb pornography with the aesthetics of pornography itself; to produce a poetic catalogue for the aesthetic education of the contemporary creative taste; to form an alternative sexual lexicon that teaches the lover how to use, in his erotic daily life, the word 'leopard' for 'breast', 'cloud' for 'panties', 'dome' for 'nipple', and 'oasis' for 'navel'...

Likewise, I am a poet who refuses to be confined in an aquarium of love and poetic flirtation like a decorated little fish. It is no wonder, then, that I have juxtaposed velvety poems with steel-like poems in one collection. I have my ontological obsession, through which I delight in leaping from the clarity of love to the murmur of symbols and the tumult of ideology, like an Australian kangaroo on the tapestry of the poem. - M. A. Adlan.

Year of Publication: 2022
Edition: First
Number of Pages: 232
Publisher: Dar Fadaat