ABOUT THIS COLLECTION:

Each of us experiences the world in our own way, but few of us – save a poet – can express the totality of what we experience. Saud Al-Yaqout has this gift. His poems, or letters to himself, capture ideas, scenes, feelings, and experiences in a way that allows readers to see the world through a poet’s eyes. By accepting Saud’s invitation to “Dismember my eyes and gaze through them to see / What has already been said and what is painted in me”, readers will find a “magic repossessed” and a “beauty redefined”.

Letters to Myself contains 31 poems written in a unique style that combines Romanticism and Neo-Classical Arabic poetry. Covering topics from love and the loss of love to nature, technology, and society, Saud’s poems are a melting pot, where Greek mythology, Islamic civilization, Arabian culture, and the experiences of the modern world merge to create a new perspective on the complexity of being.