In The Embrace of Music & The Mirrors of New York

In the first part of this poetry collection the poet endeavors to write extremely condensed poems consisting of four or five lines each except for some poems which the experience required that they be longer; he also maintains the consistency of the poems as integrated aesthetic units hence the poems get rid of all that can be discarded. In the second part he writes relatively longer poems each in two pages. Yet he divides the poems to very short stanzas for them to appear like a mosaic so the reader can receive each stanza as a stand-alone poem. Besides putting the stanzas near to each other creates a more-extensive scene that contains broader and deeper implications. These poems complete the subject of estrangement which is considered the most important aspect of the poets poetry project since the publication of his first poetry collection--estrangement in its spatial and psychological aspect. Yet it becomes deeper here as he started the journey of a real alienation by migrating to the USA where he wrote a section of the first part of the collection and all of the second part. He also compensated his absence from his homeland by recalling pictures and interacting with them pictures that summon the women in them with their deep memories. The poet is also keen to accurately record the dates his stanzas were written as if each date was a part of the respective poems body. And by doing so he continues in the project of writing poetic diaries which he started with his poetry collection The Diaries of the Maestro 2008 and which is the most prominent feature in his experience--besides the intensive presence of women and the feminine body--that makes it a distinct experience in Arabic poetry which is rich in unique voices.