Maram al-Masri es una poeta cuya obra se caracteriza por una escritura directa y sin adornos, con énfasis en lo cotidiano. Su poesía emplea metáforas sencillas, casi infantiles, que contrastan marcadamente con las convenciones de la poesía amorosa árabe tradicional. Al-Masri escribe sin reservas sobre la sexualidad y el amor, lo que confiere a sus versos una cualidad fresca e inesperada. Sus obras, escritas principalmente en árabe pero a menudo con una dimensión francesa, exploran temas como el amor, la libertad y la injusticia social con honestidad inquebrantable.
This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. These unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.
In this new collection of poems, Maram al-Masri offers herself as witness on behalf of her suffering people, speaking for those who can no longer speak, articulating with and for them the passion for liberty that is the driving force of their struggle for justice. Here is a profound, heart-wrenching lament for all victims of that terrible war, for all the numberless maimed and dead."Masri's poetry vividly encapsulates the frailty of our human condition in a brutal society. It can flay you at first reading. It is fair to see Masri as a love poet whose verse spares no truth of love's joys and mercilessness, to whose work war then came, as it tore her native Syria apart, and overwhelmed it, and her." - Ed Vulliamy, THE GUARDIAN