Poetry
أحلام وثورة
Not translated into English
Ali Sidqi Abdelkader · 1957
Synopsis
The poet's first book, published in Cairo, whose title places dream and revolution side by side. Its contents are not known.
Context
The book appeared in Cairo, from Dār al-Nashr al-Miṣriyya, and not in Tripoli: Egypt then served as a place of publication for the writers of the Maghreb. It belongs to what the historian Muhammad al-Hajiri called the generation of the young men, caught between the elders faithful to the classical qasida, such as Ahmad Rafiq al-Mahdawi, and the beginners who came after. This generation adopted the free form of the poem and the lyricism of its time, marked by the Arab poets of the American emigration, and carried the renewal of poetry in Libya up to the sixties. The content of the collection is not described, and no piece from it is reproduced.
Who it is for
In Arabic. Poems by this author have appeared in English, French and Chinese, but no translation of this collection is reported. The complete works of 1985 remain the way in.
Prizes and reception
First book of a poet to whom the magazine al-Fuṣūl al-Arbaʿa devoted a special issue in 1992, and whom the al-Mirbad festival nicknamed the Jacques Prévert of the Arabs.
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