Monzer Masri (منذر المصري)
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الشُرود arabščina

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نَظَراتُهُ قد تغيَّرَت arabščina

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يضَعُ حَصاةً في جيبِه ليتذكَّر arabščina

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دخَلَ حرباً وخرَجَ منها سالماً . arabščina

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أُختُهُ العاطفة arabščina

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إن كانَ مُحَتَّماً عَلَيَّ أن أعبُدَ إلَها arabščina

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أجري خلفَ كلِّ شيءٍ يجري arabščina

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قمرٌ نَهاري يذوبُ في ضوءٍ قَويّ arabščina

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Monzer Masri منذر المصري
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About

* 27.05.1949, Latakia, Sirija
živi v: Latakia, Sirija

Monzer Masri (born in 1949 in Latakia, Syria), poet and painter, places himself deliberately not at the centre, but the periphery. He lives in the coastal city of Latakia, far away from the cultural hurly-burly of Damascus. As a poet, too, Masri goes his own way. Since emerging as a poet at the end of the 1970s, he has consistently maintained his artistic independence from the poetic ideas of his generation.

He rejects expectations imposed from outside in terms of form and content. He writes a kind of 'counter-poetry', poetry which names and lays bare the subjective in defiance of conventions about what should be permitted.

His demand is that poetry should not lie, it should be honest. Hence his dispensing with linguistic decoration and unusual words, images and themes. Instead, his poems are devoted to the concrete, objective world, the detail and the everyday and are reminiscent in their gestures of narrative prose.

For Masri, poetry is what imparts sense. Its aim is to help an apparently chaotic world to find new meaning. Consequently, he sees his role as a poet as creating meaning and, in this way, smoothing the way for others in their search for the meaning of their existence and for happiness.