Poetry
عشيات وادي اليابس
Not translated into English
Arar · 1954
Synopsis
The poet's only collection, sixty-six poems gathered after his death. In it Arar paints without artifice his life, his society and the events of his country: the landscapes of Jordan, the criticism of British policy, the defence of the Nawar, nomads kept at the margins of society. The title comes from a well-watered valley in the north of Ajloun, which they frequented, and the melancholy of lost youth runs through the verses.
Context
His friend Mahmoud al-Mutlaq gathered the poems and published them in 1954, five years after the poet's death. In 1998 Ziad Saleh al-Zu'bi produced an edited and introduced edition of nearly seven hundred pages, and another edition appeared at Dar al-Ahliyya in 2004. His son Wasfi al-Tal became Prime Minister of Jordan. Yarmouk University awards a prize that bears his name, and he was named a figure of Arab culture for 2022.
Who it is for
Poems in Arabic, without translation; an entry into Jordan under the emirate and into its poetic language.
Prizes and reception
The collection, reissued several times, remains the gateway into the poet's work.
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