Poetry
هذي أنا القبرة
Not translated into English
Iman Asiri · 1982
Synopsis
The author's first collection, in which she takes as her emblem the lark, a small bird of Bahrain that sings from dawn and announces the day's work and the care of the little ones. Written as prose poems, a form she already practised in the previous decade, the texts are brief, made of flashes and few words, simple and transparent, between a woman's confidence and the gaze turned on others, their lives and events.
Context
The collection appeared from Dar al-Farabi in 1982, about ten years after the author's first prose poems, which the poets of her generation, Qassim Haddad, Ali Abdallah Khalifa or Alawi al-Hashimi, did not at first know how to name. The lark then returns in the titles of her following collections. She has published little compared with her generation, and the form she had opened has become common among younger poets.
Who it is for
Short poems in Arabic, untranslated; a way into women's poetry of the Gulf.
Prizes and reception
Alawi al-Hashimi studied it in his work on the contemporary poets of Bahrain.