The Complete Poetic Works Hussein Mardan

This comprehensive volume gathers the complete poetic repertoire of Hussain Mardan, a radical pioneer of modern Iraqi and Arab poetry whose work challenged societal norms and traditional poetic frameworks. Living a bohemian life marked by poverty, arrest, and artistic defiance, Mardan emerged in the mid-20th century as a fierce proponent of individuality and existential freedom. His groundbreaking collections—most notably Naked Poems (Qasa'id 'Ariya)—are historically recognized as crucial early precursors to the modern Arabic prose poem. Channeling a raw, Baudelairean sensibility fused with intense personal vulnerability, Mardan's verses explore themes of urban solitude, physical desire, social rebellion, and the existential agony of marginalized human existence. This complete edition stands as an essential archive restoring a visionary voice to its rightful place in Arab literary history.

It offers readers an irreplaceable opportunity to engage with the complete legacy of an iconoclastic Arab poet whose candid, existential prose-poetry defied conventions and profoundly influenced modern Arabic lyrical expressions.

Ideal for scholars and lovers of modern Arabic poetry, students of post-WWII avant-garde Arab movements, and general readers fascinated by existential literature, prose poetry, and bohemian artistic lives.