Fullblood Arabian by Osama Alomar and translated by C. J. Collins

This is poetry from Syria.

Fullblood Arabian by Osama Alomar translated by C. J. Collins is published by New Directions. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811221764E12.

Fullblood Arabian, by Osama Alomar, is a Arabic poetry collection from Syria, translated by C. J. Collins, published by New Directions in 2014. It is a compact Syrian collection of aphoristic and fabulist force, where absurdity and political pressure share the same small room. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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