The Magazine Shi'r and the Poetics of Modern Arabic Poetry - Basilius Bawardi - Bog

Published in the 1950s-60s, Sh'ir magazine led a change in the role and form of Arabic poetry, supporting modernization in Arab thinking and writing through its articles of literary criticism, translated and original Arabic poetry, all promoting a new kind of secular and personal poetics, including that of prose-poetry and vision and visual poems.