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 Re: صدور أول ديوان شعري باللغة الإنجليزية لشاعر سوداني في تاريخ غرب أستراليا (Re: elmahasy)
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جزء من كلمة البروفيسر Professor Dennis Haskell واستاذ الأدب بجامعة غرب أستراليا
Afeif, poets, dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen.
I met Afeif at the end of 2003, not long after his
arrival in this country. He came here as
a political refugee.
I am indeed very pleased to say something about
afeif's poems tonight.
I must say that the honorable Margaret Quirk would
make a better literary critic than i would a
politician as she mentioned ,Afeif's background in Sudan ,and his suffering at the hands of an abominable dictatorial regime, the repeated
savage treatment of him dealt out in his many
confinements in prison ,in the poem 'martyrs gain nothing but their own death I find this amazingly detached and unfussed,shewing no emotion ,or mention of his own martyrdom.
Afeif's poems do reflect his own experiences, but in this calm detached and unemotional way, ;rather like Albert Camus work.
For someone like me who has grown up in Australia, Afeif's poems seem remarkably calm and detached; a quizzical stance and non-romantic. He is an observer.....
the poem 'darkness ' is typical.,no strutting
,pragmatic ,and very much to the point.,;in fact 'Bet of the Argil', echoes what Margaret was saying.
Afeif's spirit cannot be imprisoned.
freedom is in the spirit, and prison cannot contain
this.
This poetry is strong evidence that tyranny and savage dictatorial regimes cause enormous suffering. ,however they never can achieve their goals. his poetry is a testament that this kind of soul cannot be imprisoned.
even in the quiet little poems, this is evident e.g.
'people commit suicide for trivial reasons
and
for the same reasons
they
commit living.
------very quirky!! all his poems are like that.
Emily Dickinson , who was, I think, the greatest
American poet, says 'tell all of the truth ;',and this is what
Afeif does
''erase allof us ,,and leave the sun''............see/????
‘‘The usurer mourned because he had lost a great
client!!!!!"
quirky again-----a sense of humour,...there's
bitterness there
as well.,,,brain teasers almost, you could say,,..
this is a very different kind of poetry,,than that
which we are all used to. In the English speaking
tradition
''the shadow of the sword told
the shadow of the knight
''i could
kill you
without blood.....!!!!!
It’s undeniably true, and I will go on thinking about
these things-----well------
forever I suppose........
(عدل بواسطة elmahasy on 06-11-2006, 05:56 AM)
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