The poems of Djaykoûr.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23602 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 144 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851949905 |
“Poet before poetry,” “Sufi before Sufism,” “singer of a pre-memory”… this is how Salah Stétié presents Badr Chaker es-Sayyâb. He was born in 1926 in Djaykoûr – a village in southern Iraq, crossed by the small Boaïb River which, thanks to the poet, would become a river, a river of poetry – and died at the age of thirty-seven. His language is “recognizable among all by its mixture of calculated familiarities and provoked distances, never naive, certainly, but never tortured either, nor ever, in its obligatory obscurities due to the very obscurity of meaning, armed against the transparencies of the heart or the inflections, with a sweetness, at times unheard of, of the voice.” Calligraphy by Nja Mahdaoui.
“Poet before poetry,” “Sufi before Sufism,” “singer of a pre-memory”… this is how Salah Stétié presents Badr Chaker es-Sayyâb. He was born in 1926 in Djaykoûr – a village in southern Iraq, crossed by the small Boaïb River which, thanks to the poet, would become a river, a river of poetry – and died at the age of thirty-seven. His language is “recognizable among all by its mixture of calculated familiarities and provoked distances, never naive, certainly, but never tortured either, nor ever, in its obligatory obscurities due to the very obscurity of meaning, armed against the transparencies of the heart or the inflections, with a sweetness, at times unheard of, of the voice.” Calligraphy by Nja Mahdaoui.