In the collection “Purposefully Forgotten Bags” by Youssef Muslim, the poet takes the self as a starting point for the general, or perhaps he takes the general as a starting point for the self... mixing them together in
His poems are very brilliant, crossing the thin line between public and private. The poet captures the smallest details of life to weave pictures from them that we stop before with careful reading and the ordinary thinking that we go through - perhaps every day, and which seems familiar to many of us. Youssef proceeds from it towards the vocabulary of the wide world, with his emphasis on the human thread that connects us to each other, and connects...
Between us and the world around us. In “Purposely Forgotten Bags,” the poet was able to deeply draw for us his own world, which we discover intersects in an amazing way with everyone who reads the collection.
Youssef Muslim, an Egyptian poet, writer, and theater critic, born in 1979, won
He received several awards in the field of theatrical writing. He also published several theatrical texts, including “The Guardian” (2007) and “Al-Shabihan” (2009). These two texts and others were presented on stage, and he published several collections of poetry, including “A Coffin That Coughs Hard” (2013), “Jurisprudence.” “Rage (2014) is the biography of a poet who dies pointing his middle finger at the world” (2016)
