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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Iraqi poet (–)
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab | |
|---|---|
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab | |
| Born | ()24 December Jaykur, near Basra, Mandatory Iraq |
| Died | 24 December () (aged&#;38) Kuwait |
| Resting place | Iraq |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Education | Higher Teacher Training College, Baghdad () |
| Known&#;for | Poet |
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (Arabic: بدر شاكر السياب) (December 24, in Jaykur, Basra – December 24, in Kuwait)[1] was an Iraqi poet, regarded as one of the most important contemporary Arab poets.
Alongside Nazik Al Malaika, he is considered one of the founders of Arab free-verse poetry.[2][3]
Early life and career
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab was born in Jaykur, a town south of Basra, the eldest child of a date grower and shepherd.[4] His mother passed away when he was six years old.[5] He graduated from the Higher Teacher Training College of Baghdad in [6] but was later dismissed from his teaching position for being a member of the Iraqi Communist Party.[7]
Banned from teaching because of his political views, he next found employment as a taster, working for the Iraqi Date Company in Basra.
However, he soon returned to Baghdad, where he worked as a security guard for a road paving company.
See full list on howold.co The Tent Generations. Legacy [ edit ]. Sayyab began writing for it and this brought him into contact with other writers in their circle, including Ounsi el-Hajj, and Khalil Hawi. They enjoy blessings from which he was deprived, and he spent his life seeking them.He was actively involved in the Iraqi Intifada, in which he joined his fellow workers in sacking the offices of the US Information Service, climbed up an electricity pole and declaimed a revolutionary poem he had composed the previous night.[8] The government instituted a campaign of repression against Communist sympathizers in the wake of the uprising, and al-Sayyab feared that he would be arrested.
He decided to flee the country, obtained a false Iranian passport under the assumed name of Ali Artink, and escaped over the border to Iran. From Abadan he then sailed to Kuwait in This journey was the subject of his poem 'An Escape' (Farar).[9]
He worked for a while at the Kuwait Electricity Company, but in he returned to Iraq and severed all his links with the Communist Party.
He was therefore allowed to work in the Iraqi public service again, and given a job in the General Directorate for Import and Export. However after the 14 July Revolution he wrote poetry critical of the new head of state Abd al-Karim Qasim, and was therefore dismissed from his post once again in April [10] Following the Kirkuk Massacre he became outspokenly anti-Communist and published a series of essays called ‘Kuntu shiyū‘iyyan’ (‘I was a Communist').[11]
In the Syrian poet Adunis and the Lebanese poet Yusuf al-Khal began publishing a new magazine, Majallat Shi'r ('Poetry Magazine') in Beirut.
Sayyab began writing for it and this brought him into contact with other writers in their circle, including Ounsi el-Hajj, and Khalil Hawi.[12] In Sayyab visited Beirut to publish a collection of his poetry, and won first prize ( Lebanese pounds) in a competition run by Majallat Shi'r for his collection Onshudat al-Matar (The Rain Song) which was later to become among his most widely acclaimed works.[13]
Illness and death
Returning to Iraq, al-Sayyab was given a job at the Iraqi Ports Authority and moved to Basra.
However, he was arrested again on 4 February and held until 20 February. By this time his political stance and rising literary fame had brought him to the attention of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which invited him to attend a conference entitled 'The Arab Writer and the Modern World’ in Rome.[11] In the same year, his health began to deteriorate.
In April he was admitted to the American University Hospital in Beirut, and his literary friends, including Yusuf Al-Khal, paid his fees. On his return to Basra in September the Congress for Cultural Freedom provided ongoing financial assistance to him and arranged for him to go to London to seek medical advice.[13]
At the end of , al-Sayyab travelled to the United Kingdom.
Professor Albert Hourani had managed to grant him a fellowship at Durham University and he also thought about registering as a student at Oxford University to undertake a PhD, but was not able to do so. Admitted to St Mary's Hospital, London his illness was finally diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis[14] From London he went to Paris for a week in March , where his diagnosis was confirmed.[13][15]
In February his already poor health took a sudden turn for the worse, and he was taken into the Basra Port Hospital with double pneumonia, heart problems and an ulcer.
Badr shakira al sayyab biography of abraham Archived from the original on May 7, Retrieved 6 May Badr Shakir al-Sayyab's experiments helped to change the course of modern Arabic poetry. Sayyab began writing for it and this brought him into contact with other writers in their circle, including Ounsi el-Hajj , and Khalil Hawi.As his treatment continued beyond what he could afford, the Society of Iraqi Authors and Writers, of which he was a member, secured the agreement of the Ministry of Health to continue caring for him. Eventually the Kuwaiti poet Ali Al-Sabti persuaded the Kuwaiti government to take over his treatment, and he was moved to the Amiri Hospital in Kuwait on 6 July While being treated there, he published a number of poems in the magazine Al-Ra'ed al-'Arabi ('The Arab Pioneer').
He died in the hospital on 24 December [13]
Legacy
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab's experiments helped to change the course of modern Arabic poetry. He produced seven collections of poetry and several translations, which include the poetry of Louis Aragon, Nazim Hikmet, and Edith Sitwell, who, with T.
S. Eliot, had a profound influence on him.[7] At the end of the s he launched the free verse movement in Arabic poetry, with fellow Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika, Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati and Shathel Taqa, giving it credibility with the many fine poems he published in the fifties.[16][17] The publication of his third volume, Rain Song, in was one of the most significant events in contemporary Arabic poetry, instrumental in drawing attention to the use of myth in poetry.
He revolutionized every element of the poem and wrote on highly involved political and social topics, as well as many personal themes. The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was greatly impressed and influenced by the poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.[18] Al-Sayyab’s rooms, with his poems that are full of longing for the homeland after his exile from it.
The poet was very interested in the smallest details of Iraq and its parts. He was in a constant eagerness and longing for everything related to the homeland that he was forced to leave, and this is clear in the poem. This is a brief will in which he wished to find a grave.
In his homeland when he died, but when he lived he wanted nothing but a small hut in his fields, pointing to the blessings that he would bestow upon Iraq through a letter addressed to his people, recommending it to his people. In it, he forbade them from denying blessings, and commanded them to adhere to it and not accept anything other than it, regardless of what
They enjoy blessings from which he was deprived, and he spent his life seeking them.
Then he concludes his poem by pointing out the rights of the homeland over its children. It is sufficient that he was created from his own soil and manna; So that this would be a sufficient reason for gratitude for the blessings, and eternal nostalgia and burning longing for Him.
In the realm of literary controversy, Sayyab stated that Nazik al-Malaikah's claim to have discovered free verse herself was false, and drew attention to the earlier work of Ali Ahmad Bakathir (–69) who had developed the two-hemistich format in the mid s.
It was Bakathir in fact who had written fractured (caesura) poetry for the first time in Arabic poetry.
Bakathir (–69), in the second edition of his book "Akhnatun wa Nefertiti", acknowledged the recognition Sayyab had brought him.[19]
In , some of Sayyab's works were banned from the Riyadh International Book Fair by the Saudi authorities.[20]
Just like many well-known and modern Iraqi figures, one of the tables in the Dar al-Atraqchi Café in Baghdad was named after him in his honor.[21]
Poetry
- Christ After Crucifixion (المسيح بعد الصلب)[22]
- Wilting Flowers (أزهار ذابلة, )
- Hurricanes (أعاصير, )
- Flowers and myths (أزهار وأساطير, )
- Dawn of Peace (فجر السلام, )
- The Grave Digger (Long Poem) (حفار القبور, )
- The Blind Prostitute (المومس العمياء, )
- Weapons and Children (الأسلحة والأطفال, )
- Rain Song (انشودة المطر, )
- The Drowned Temple (, المعبد الغريق)
- Alaguenan? Home (, منزل الأقنان)
- The Balcony of the Nobleman's Daughter (, شناشيل ابنة الجلبي)
See also
- ^"Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab: A Profile from the Archives".
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- ^Boullata, Issa J. “Badr S̱ẖâkir Al-Sayyâb and the Free Verse Movement.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 1, no. 3, , pp. – JSTOR, Accessed 29 July
- ^"بدر شاكر السياب.. الشاعر العراقي الذي ألهمته فتاة راعية". Al Jazeera.
- ^"Biography".See full list on howold.co It is sufficient that he was created from his own soil and manna; So that this would be a sufficient reason for gratitude for the blessings, and eternal nostalgia and burning longing for Him. Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai. Jaykur, near Basra , Mandatory Iraq. However after the 14 July Revolution he wrote poetry critical of the new head of state Abd al-Karim Qasim , and was therefore dismissed from his post once again in April
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- ^Abbas, Ihsan "Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab: A Study of His Life and Poetry" p. 19
- ^Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature: K-Z By Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey Contributor Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey Published by Taylor & Francis, ISBN&#; p
- ^ abDivine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry By Robert Atwan, George Dardess, Peggy Rosenthal Published by Oxford University Press US, ISBN&#; p
- ^Jones, Kevin M.
"The Poetics of Revolution: Cultures, Practices, and Politics of Anti-Colonialism in Iraq, "(PDF). p.&#; Retrieved 7 May
- ^"Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab: A Profile from the Archives".See full list on howold.co Sayyab began writing for it and this brought him into contact with other writers in their circle, including Ounsi el-Hajj , and Khalil Hawi. Digital Banipal promotion B Then he concludes his poem by pointing out the rights of the homeland over its children. Bakathir —69 , in the second edition of his book "Akhnatun wa Nefertiti", acknowledged the recognition Sayyab had brought him.
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- ^Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty, Historical Dictionary of Iraq The Scarecrow Press Inc. p
- ^ abColla, Elliott. "Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, Cold War Poet"(PDF). . Retrieved 8 May
- ^Terri DeYoung, Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq, SUNY Press, p
- ^ abcd"Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab: A Profile from the Archives".
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- ^Terri DeYoung, Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq, SUNY Press, p
- ^"Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab and Salah Abd Al-Sabur: Pioneers of Arabic Modernism"(PDF). . Retrieved 8 May
- ^Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the Free Verse Movement, by Issa J.
Boullata Cambridge University Press.
- ^Modern Arabic Literature By Paul Starkey Published by Edinburgh University Press, ISBN&#; p 80
- ^Guardian 11 August Mahmoud Darwish by Peter Clark
- ^Qisar M.M. Badawai modern Arabic Literature Cambridge University Press p
- ^Sharp, Robert (17 June ).
"No, Ambassador: It's Not 'Meddling' to Call for Free Speech in Saudi Arabia". HuffPost UK.
- ^"Dar al-Atraqchi Café is a simulation of Iraq’s heritage with a distinctive modern flavor"
- ^"Good Friday Poem: The Messiah After the Crucifixion". Archived from the original on May 7, Retrieved September 3,