• Author: Rajaa Al-Talbi
• Publisher: Fadaat Publishing House
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Subject: Poetry
• Language: Arabic
• Number of Pages: 144

Poetry has always been a twin and companion to exile, as if Saint-John Perse, by naming one of his poems 'Exile,' was simultaneously naming the poetic condition itself. The poet resides in exile—exiled from the city, from regulated concerns, and from limited rules. Endangered by his own poem, when he yields to it, he is deprived of himself, accepting to be cast out, far from all possibilities and conceivable forms.

The poem is an exile, and the poet who belongs to it belongs to the deficiency and lack of fulfillment that marks exile. He is always outside himself, outside his homeland, belonging to the exterior, to the strange, and to that which lacks intimacy and boundaries.

This exile, which is the poem, makes the poet an outcast, a banished one, deprived of a guaranteed and real place. He belongs to uncertainty when he casts away everything that could grant him security and satisfaction.