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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.

More by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

  • LegendsPoetry drawing on Mesopotamian mythology and cultural memory→
  • Rain SongModernist poem about spiritual and emotional drought using water imagery→
  • In the Ancient Night→
  • Collected PoemsCollection of the Iraqi modernist poet's influential and pioneering work→

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