El talismán de la palabra

After an extensive essay in which he offers us an overview of contemporary Arabic poetry, its complex relationship with tradition, its modernity, its dialogue with European poetry, in which two authors stand out, Eliot and Lorca, Arbós carries out a thorough and rigorous analysis of three fundamental poets, Al-Bayati, Adonis and Mamud Darwich, of which he offers a complete study with numerous examples. The great themes of contemporary Arabic poetry are clearly outlined in the work of these three poets, from love themes to the tragedy of the lost land, from the joy of nature to the harshness of exile and the persistence of an identity that it has always been questioned, always recovered within the framework of a history characterized by its extreme harshness.