Remission

Notes

The tone of Abboud al Jabiri's poetry is quite different from the other work we've translated from Arabic, as you'll see if you look at poets such as the stunning Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi from Sudan. In this poem, as in 'Fading', he fixes on a deceptively simple image and, when elaborating on it, manages to convey complex and delicates feelings about loss and acceptance.