The English poetry anthology “The Memory of Silence” by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid released in India
The cover of the anthology
The English poetry anthology titled “The Memory of Silence” by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid was released in India. The anthology is the collective result of the efforts by the publishing house; Poetrywala, poet and publisher Hemant Divate, the artist of the cover painting Shirish Kathlac, and the poet, critic and professor of architecture Mustansir Dalvi.
Dalvi, the poet and translator, writes about this anthology: “Like the soft susurration of the title of his first book of poems “The Whisper of the Sea,” his voice speaks to our soul directly. His memories are a map rolled open, containing multitudes, cities and rivers, balconies and butterflies, evenings and sadness. We enter this atlas of Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s selection of poems from his largest oeuvre to introduce it to the audience.”
The book includes a wide variety of poems from the previous books of poems by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, in additional to few poems that weren’t published before. An example of the poems include:
“When the tale of love
looked for its legends,
it found us.”
looked for its legends,
it found us.”
“Love lit a candle in the dark,
the candle melt into one thousand and one stars,
to cover us with light.”
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali) is an Egyptian writer, poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in 1963, March 13. He studied English literature, and started his career as a translator, before working in the field of cultural journalism. He published 30 books; both authored and translated, and introduced the non-Arab cultural icons in his TV program, The Other. His photo travels of 33 countries have been published in cultural magazines.
He is a member of Egyptian Writers Union, Editor-in-Chief of The AsiaN in Arabic, and the acting president of AJA (Asia Journalist Association). He is the winner of Manhae Grand Prize in Literature 2014, the Republic of Korea. He has won the Arab Journalism Award in Culture 2015, from Dubai Press Club, UAE.
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