Banquet of Mercy for the Universe

I am the child of time I say:Time tastes of the most delicious winewe drink it and it drinks uswe and time awaitour drunkenness togethertill the angel of indulgencewholly unembarrassedcrosses our melancholy foreheads.. About Hanane Aad’s PoetryThe latest poetry collection by the Lebanese poet Hanane Aad is distinguished by the quality of its language and by a recurrent rhetorical structure although the latter never obscures or dilutes the poetical tension and power. What distinguishes it further are those poetical qualities that remind us of our literary ancestors without overshadowing the author’s specific fineness of emotion and excellence of style. There are features and accents reminiscent of the Biblical prophets creating a spiritual and sacral tone and a meditative atmosphere and in particular recalling Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet.- Georges Geha Reuter’s 25 August 2010Hanane Aad’s poems reveal a quiet melancholy; her poetry is a whisper rather than an assertion. She knows how to rise above everyday language yet uses it like her mother tongue as the language of poetry. Hers is a finely chiselled writing and her phrases are sculpted deeply.- Vénus Khoury-Ghata Paris 2000Hanane Aad’s Pearls of the Soul Riding Virtue displays a mystical awareness of the world an intense language which combines intellect with intuition and also pays attention to the kind of poetical values which are absent from many works of poetry today.- Ahed Fadel Al Hayat newspaper 26 November 2006Hanane Aad comes from a culture that is aware of the present epoch and of the value of its words. She writes a poetry equivalent to the pulse of the soul to the importance of the virtue that she never ceases to search for and record sometimes through the music of words sometimes by a philosophy that we rarely find in the work of her fellow writers today.- Emily Nasrallah Al Anwar newspaper 2006It is as if Hanane Aad the poet who knows the secret of wisdom were reassuring Al Hallaj when he was divided between two hearts: his heavenly one and his earthly one. The two main subjects of her verse love and poetry are expressed with eloquence and a beauty of language and she displays great sincerity when writing about matters of the heart and the mind.- Dr. Sami Makarem 27 April 2006A language inlaid with metaphors and with existential and creative amazement. Did not Hanane Aad herself say that her language is at one and the same time her horse her insight and her chivalry or fouroussyah?- Dr. Amine Albert Al Rihani 27 April 2006The poetry of Hanane Aad is a laboratory of the soul’s power and the will and combines both the concrete and the abstract. Her poems are based on several contrasting themes and the poetical element in them is a result of these contrasts being developed in a vertical sequence.- Salman Zayneddin Al Anwar newspaper 2006Her poetry embodies a feeling of nihilism or absurdity but in a positive sense stimulating creation and innovation instead of death and surrender. This is the fruit of a transparent and sincere monologue indicating the power of the heart and the power of the soul. The meditative inclination in Hanane Aad’s verse may be founded on a strategy of her poetical writing to bring the abstract down from its throne to the level of the concrete and non absolute in order to humanize what is abstract and to set up a possible dialogue with life or the passing age at least within the poem.- Jihad Hudeib Amman October 2004