Poetry
D'un soleil réticent
Not translated into English
Zaghloul Morsy · 1969
Synopsis
Meditative poems of a very controlled form, in which a poet born at the crossroads of several civilisations seeks to grasp from within the mystery of the new man. The light of the title reveals secrets that must remain secret; here intersect the memory of Greek harmony, the sense of enigma and the parable inherited from the Arab poets, the end of time, finitude and renewal, decomposition, and the rift of a writer torn between two shores and two languages.
Context
The collection was published by Grasset in 1969. The critic of Le Monde, in August of that year, saw in him the only Moroccan poet of his generation to place himself in the French tradition since Rimbaud, between Saint-John Perse, Char and Bonnefoy, with a memory of Abu Nuwas. According to Claude Fintz, Roger Caillois and Roland Barthes praised it, but only one study has been devoted to it, that of Yamna Abdelkader, who notes in it the pervasiveness of the myth of the Phoenix. The author did not publish a second collection until sixteen years later.
Who it is for
Dense poems, in a learned language laden with references, which call for slow reading.
Prizes and reception
Welcomed on publication by Le Monde, which wrote that “Morocco has just given us an important poet”.
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