Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

Rain Song

Modernist poem about spiritual and emotional drought using water imagery

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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

Iraqi poet who pioneered free verse in Arabic poetry. Rain Song is his most celebrated poem, a visionary meditation on fertility and death.

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