Poetry
همسات
Not translated into English
Taher Zamakhshari · 1952
Synopsis
Whispers: a collection of poems printed in Cairo by Dar al-Ta'lif, which the author dedicates to his readers, offering them the feelings and thoughts that stirred him. Its ninety-six pages are divided into four parts: Processions, Whispers, Sighs and Phantoms. Among the poems are “My Homeland”, “Memory of the Hijra” and “The Procession of the Pilgrims”, one of the two poems that Zamakhshari devoted to this subject. Nothing more is known of it.
Context
The author's second collection according to al-Watan, after Ahlam al-rabi', published in 1946 and regarded as the first printed Saudi poetry collection, Hamsat appeared in 1372 AH, that is 1952 according to al-Watan and 1953 according to the entry Saudipedia devotes to the book. The pilgrimage, which he already sings of there, was one of the great themes of his poetry, so much so that in 1968 he devoted an entire collection to it, Labbayk. According to Saudipedia, some of his poems have been translated into foreign languages; the Ithnayniyya of Abdelmaqsoud Khoja has undertaken to reissue all of his collections.
Who it is for
A short collection from the first generation of printed Saudi poetry; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
Al-Watan stresses the place the pilgrimage holds in it, a major theme of his books of the 1950s and 1960s.
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