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"""...What surprises me is the liberty in which he [Hussam] writes his poems; creating new images, shoving new vocabularies in the ancient dictionary of poetry...Not only a buffoon bird, but also pain, disappointments, sadness, and futureless horizons. Thank you Hussam for this fearlessness and sensitivity."" - Maram Al-Masri, acclaimed Syrian-French poet, author of (A red cherry on a white-tiled floor) [Karzaẗ ḥamrāʼ ʿal� balāṭ abyad] (2003)"

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"""...What surprises me is the liberty in which he [Hussam] writes his poems; creating new images, shoving new vocabularies in the ancient dictionary of poetry...Not only a buffoon bird, but also pain, disappointments, sadness, and futureless horizons. Thank you Hussam for this fearlessness and sensitivity."" -Maram Al-Masri, acclaimed Syrian-French poet, author of (A red cherry on a white-tiled floor) [Karzaẗ ḥamrāʼ ʿal� balāṭ abyad] (2003) ""The opening line of the Arab Surrealist manifesto of 1975 proclaimed: ""With disgust we shove aside the dregs of survival and the impoverished rational ideas which stuff the ash-can-heads of intellectuals."" While the author may or may not bear the direct or conscious influence of that movement begun in the 1930s, the tone and imagery of these eminently readable poems, ranging from the flippant to the wistful, with an updated pinch of post-modernist irony and self-referentiality thrown in, fashion poetry, and succeed in finding a universalism, out of the same rejection of the dual illusions of nationalism and rationalism."" -Alex Cigale, poet, editor, translator, lecturer in Russian Literature at CUNY-Queens College"

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"Bahloul (A.k.a Hussam Jefee-Bahloul) is a poet, musician andpsychiatrist. He was born in Syria in 1983 and currently practices andteaches at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He writespoems and essays both in Arabic and English. He has two booksof poetry published in Arabic, and has published essays in bothlanguages. Bahloul is also a musician and songwriter. His project""Ta'sheeq"" aimed at dovetailing the elements of poetry, music andvisual arts together. The project toured many cities and performedaround the US between 2015-2018. His current musical projectSouq El-Jum3a (Friday Market) is a musical collective that aims atmaking original Arabic music keeping up the spirit of classical songs. Samantha Kostmayer is a writer, editor, educator, and translator fromNew York City. She graduated from Columbia University, CUNY, and the American University in Cairo with degrees in history, forcedmigration, and law; Samantha is currently completing her Ph.D inphilosophy. She is writing a volume of short stories and her translationshave appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. Her poetryhas appeared in English, Swedish, and Croatian. Bahloul (A.k.a Hussam Jefee-Bahloul) is a poet, musician andpsychiatrist. He was born in Syria in 1983 and currently practices andteaches at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He writespoems and essays both in Arabic and English. He has two booksof poetry published in Arabic, and has published essays in bothlanguages. Bahloul is also a musician and songwriter. His project""Ta'sheeq"" aimed at dovetailing the elements of poetry, music andvisual arts together. The project toured many cities and performedaround the US between 2015-2018. His current musical projectSouq El-Jum3a (Friday Market) is a musical collective that aims atmaking original Arabic music keeping up the spirit of classical songs."

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