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What Cannot Be Reclaimed - Mariam Sharif
JOD
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This collection contains 36 poems across 287 pages, signaling the poet's move towards the long-form poem—a style not very common in contemporary Arabic prose poetry. It marks a departure from the "flash poem," whose expressive richness has been diluted by its popularity. The poet delves anew, but with more refined stylistic tools—like the fleeting image, rhythmic composition, or the compact sentence—into atmospheres of transparent philosophical contemplation. This is crafted with a precisely calculated feminine perspective and a deliberately overwhelming universal human tone. There is a captivating immersion in the self through its many phases, at the heart of times and places, in the convergence or dispersal of nature's elements, in the hidden vocabularies of existence, in dialogues with the other, and in laying bare the vast expanse of human fragility, in dreams and nightmares alike.