Since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978, the south has been present in the poems of Judat Fakhr Al-Din, about its land, villages, trees, farmers and warriors. The south is stricken with heat, and its people remain stuck in their fields and houses, even after they are reduced to rubble.
The Lebanese poet, born in 1953, and one of the most prominent voices in modern Lebanese poetry, turned the details of rural life into a poetic language in which nature, love, death, resistance and exile are intertwined. From "I Fall From Your Love" and "Rural Illusions" to his latest collections, "On Matters of Insight" and "My Two Shadows," a poetic experience that begins in the South continues through decades of war and loss.
In the file "Yanovit" we read eight poems and a selection from different stages of his experience, among them texts about villages that were destroyed, the house that was severely destroyed and a return to places that were changed by the war.
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Muhammad Nasser Al-Din | "South" by Judat Facher Eldin, the author of the entrances to the villages.