Intimate Verses

"Ru'ya" (dream, vision) is the first word of the collection and it sets the tone for what follows. Henri Zoghaib explores the possibilities of the imagination in one hundred short lyrics. Translations into three languages expand the number of texts to four hundred, and the permutations create enough dreams for the reader to get lost in.

<b>Henri Zoghaib</b> is a Lebanese poet with many books to his credit, including poetry, criticism, and translation. Born in Lebanon (1948), he has been a principal monitor of many cultural circles in his country, where he founded the poetry magazine L<i>'Odyssee</i> (1982). His collection <i>Love Poems In Forbidden Time</i>, translated by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard, was published in 1991 by New Pen Bond Publishers in Washington, D.C.