← Badr Shakir al-SayyabCollected Poemsby Badr Shakir al-SayyabCollection of the Iraqi modernist poet's influential and pioneering workFind on Amazon↗About the authorBadr Shakir al-SayyabIraqi poet who pioneered free verse in Arabic poetry. Rain Song is his most celebrated poem, a visionary meditation on fertility and death.More by Badr Shakir al-SayyabWithered Flowers→LegendsPoetry drawing on Mesopotamian mythology and cultural memory→Rain SongModernist poem about spiritual and emotional drought using water imagery→In the Ancient Night→
