Review of the poetry collection “Rain of the Sea” By Khalid Albudoor By Mohammed Ali Shams Al Deen
Review of the poetry collection “Rain of the Sea” By Khalid Albudoor By Mohammed Ali Shams Al Deen Al Hayat Newspaper 9 April 2009 With the era of post- modernism, most poets often search for poetry in remote places, in symbols, metaphors, and masks. They chose ambiguous, mysterious and difficult roads, and in the darkness of symbols the poets move, and the poem's destiny became to be born from the womb of the mysterious and the unknown. It looks as if the mysterious had become a value. The late Francophone Egyptian novelist and poet Albert Kossery said: “The West today respects only the mysterious.” But the creative encounter may be in another place that is closer, within reach of the hand or the eye, obscured from the seer by a transparent curtain, it is sufficient for the poet to remove it with a touch, or to tear his veil with a look . This idea came to me when I was reading the last collection of poems by the Emirati poet Khalid Albudoor entitled ...