{"product_id":"i-know-well-the-face-hatem-al-hahri-9781914325472","title":"I Know Well the Face of Despair","description":"In poetry of rage and pain, Hatem Al-Shahri's despair is directed at Azrael, the angel of Death who splits the soul from the body. Misunderstood and alone, language is both the poet's saviour and his unforgiving nemesis. In his poems words become weapons, bullets and arrows intent on creating pain rather than beauty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn elegy and lament for language, this is poetry of isolation and despair. It is language itself that restricts the poet, shutting him out of a sense of joy or access to the sublime. And yet the poet finds an eerie strength, an accommodation and acceptance of mortality in his final bitter desire that language should live on, should be able to acquire a meaning of which he himself feels bereft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hatem Al Hahri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1914325478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914325472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nomad Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hatem Al Hahri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097096298751,"sku":"9781914325472","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-know-well-the-face-hatem-al-hahri-9781914325472","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}