This book is a study in Arabic of Khalil Hawi's "poetic universe" with all its richness and implications. It focuses on Hawi's poetic style and content. Khalil Hawi is the leading existential poet in the Arab world as well as one of the most important and well known avant-garde poets of modern Arabic literature who shaped the fate of contemporary Arabic poetry in the twentieth century. His poetry is deeply punctuated with symbols and metaphors and...