Damascus-SANA
The poet Saqr Alishi draws his poetic visions in the first two poems of his new collection, Phoenician myths, with free scales that make him unique in the manufacture of wonder and beauty.
The poet Alishi, throughout his poetic career four decades ago, and after several different poetry collections, sees that he writes poetry so that the skies derive their blue from the beauty of images and writes poetry to satisfy the rain falling on the earth.
The poems of the poet Alishi combine simple and easy vocabulary with the depth of meaning and transparent symbol, and he tempts him in some of his satirical poems, which carry deep philosophical dimensions, but may turn the table on all philosophies, as in the poem “The Tail” and “grandmother’s tales” and changing the world and others.
Perhaps the elements of surprise and surprise are the most important thing that Alishi resorts to in his texts without specifying the place of these elements with which he may begin his poems, as in the aesthetic education that surprise comes from the first phrase “in light of the high morals of the poplar trees we raised” and perhaps in the middle or at the end of it, as in the poem Deep talk, which indicates that these two elements dominate the group from beginning to end.
The poems of the collection are selected from the poet’s collections “Poems Honoring the Hill”, “Al-Asrar”, “A Few of Feelings”, “Graces of Wisdom”, “The Deer” and “Meaning on the Hill”, and they are located in 307 pages of medium pieces, issued by the Syrian General Book Organization .
The poet Alishi is one of the most important poets of the second generation after the generation of modernity knights in the fifties. Other than the aforementioned groups, he has a diwan in print entitled “Surra wa Other Circles.”
Bilal Ahmad