Diwan of poetry “Nothing There”

Author Name / Dr. Kamal Al-Haddad

International Number/ 9789950060890

Number of pages / 187

Page Size / 24*17

The Diwan of Dr. Kamal Al-Haddad deals with “Nothing There”, Which includes between his books forty-two prose poems, Before talking about this Diwan, it is worth talking about Palestinian poetry and its stages of development with some brevity. Palestinian poetry, like other poems, went through multiple stages until it reached the beauty of art and the splendor of formulation.

Its renaissance was delayed until the beginning of the twentieth century, and this is due, as Dr. Suleiman Gibran says in the book “A New Look at Palestinian Poetry in the Era of the Mandate” to the fact that Palestine was not a geographical or political entity with its borders known now. His citizens did not have an identity of their own, Palestine was an integral part of the Levant or the so-called Greater Syria, This continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the partition of the Arab world by Britain and France.

Diwan of poetry “Nothing There”

Palestinian literature, especially poetry before the twentieth century, was traditionally not an expression of Palestinian society, but it is literature predominantly Islamic in nature, so the beginning of the twentieth century is the beginning of real Palestinian poetry.

What is commendable to the poet Dr. Kamal Al-Haddad is that his poetic language is superior to itself, And exhale it more than you promise, She points out more than she says, He is a poet who explodes magic in it The creative artist was able to skillfully put the goals of realism in the folds of his poetry, It becomes an influential suggestive symbol that pulls the recipient away from the direct, except in some lines that could not escape the captivity of directness and rhetoric.

This may be due to the heat of the situation and the nature of the events that necessitate it, Our poet has diversified in some of his poems, so they went out of the Palestinian reality to revolve around the monologues of the confused souls and urged them to build themselves without prestige or panic, as we see in his poem “Be as“ And the monologue of the soul in the poem “Time passes inside me”. “And leave the dream” and the prisoner’s monologue and congratulate the prisoner on liberation in his poem “Our pride is you”.

And his revolt against some Arab leaders, as in his poem “The open is their shelter, gentlemen” and in the mention of some bloody events poem “In memory of a massacre”.

Diwan of poetry “Nothing There”

This diversity and multiplicity of events is evidence of our poet’s possession of the corner of the language, including its connotations and signs, And proof that his poems are windows open to him, and his ability to formulate realistic events in a well-controlled technical formulation, As the Moroccan writer Mustapha Kallouchi said, “To write poetry means to open open windows on my inside.”