In a book to be published soon under the title: “Manifestations of the Reader’s Imagination,” critic Abdullah Al-Samati reads the experience of the Saudi poet Asiya Al-Ammari. The book is the first critical publication that reads Al-Ammari’s poetic experience in her fourth book, “Walking outside the Roses.” Al-Samati believes that the poem is reflected in Asiyah Al-Ammari’s poetry according to the contexts she imposed on her writing, which are contexts that focus on intense condensation. A specific formal framework through which he reads these texts, or in other words: the poet is the one who shapes the reader according to what she writes, and makes him prepare to receive intense texts, focusing on the significance more than on detailing the poetic subject, and focusing on the result more than on proposing introductions And the reasons, and hence this formation that the reader is exposed to (as Al-Samati sees) makes him in a different area of poetic performance and its components, and it is certainly an area that is not easy, and does not present everything to the recipient, but rather makes him standing on the edges of the semantic blades of the texts. In this critical book, Al-Samati focuses on the dimensions of the short structure in Al-Ammari's poetry through her collection: "You Walk Outside the Roses", as these very short texts argue with a number of visions that constitute a measure of the aesthetic tension that the texts intend. Al-Samati says in his book: “The poetess chose this form and this aesthetic expressive performance to present her experience about love, death, loss, childhood, memory, joy, pain, description and monitoring, and she thus presents her poetic formats that are read according to a specific method that does not require a search for content, but rather a search for vision.” Nor is the search for the poetic subject, but rather the search for the question, and here we are dealing with different texts, which are not extinguished once we know their motives and implications, but rather remain subject to interpretation, disclosure and investigation through each new reading. The book is composed of four chapters, namely: the shock of receiving, the identity of words and the feat principle, she and roses and the poetics of conscience, the techniques of poetic discourse. Al-Samati believes that the poetic/prose mix presented by the prose poem is creative in its essence. Because it does not differentiate between the artistic and technical performance of poetry, and the artistic and technical performance of prose. Here, the prose poem embraces the entire language, or to transfer the creative discourse in its two aspects: poetic and prose. Moral, semantic and semiological dimensions that can lead us through interpretation to deeper and deeper spaces. It is noteworthy that the poet Asiya Al-Amari published four collections: “Concerning Two Roses” by the Literary Club in Riyadh in 2009, and “Can a Disgraced Dress” Dar Rawashen 2020, and “Salty Jar Songs” Dar Rawashen 2020, and “You Walk Outside the Roses” Dar Rawashen 2021 AD. The twelfth new book in which Abdullah Al-Samati deals with models and phenomena from current Saudi literature.
Ali Faye (Abha) @alma3e
