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Yousef Abu Louz
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Wiki: Yousef Abu Louz - Q74799971: Jordanian poet and journalist. Other names: Youssef Ahmed Abu Louz

Yousef Ahmed Abu Louz was born in village of Al-Kefir (Al-Faisaliah) in Jordanian city of Madaba in 1956. He is a Jordanian poet and journalist.

His life and career
Abu Louz was born into a Palestinian family that emigrated from Beersheba to Madaba in 1948. He completed his secondary education in UNRWA schools, studied at the Teachers Institute and obtained a diploma from Amman Training College. He worked in the fields of education and journalism, moving between Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He entered the cultural press and worked as a journalist in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustour, and a member of the editorial board of literary cultural affairs quarterly, issued by the Emirates Writers and Literature Union, and worked in the cultural section of Al-Shorouk magazine in Sharjah. He has many collections of poetry and writings in criticism.

Yousef Abu Louz belongs, or is attributed, to the seventies generation in contemporary Arabic poetry. Although his first collection of poetry, “Morning Katyusha, O Camp” was published in 1983, followed by his second collection, “Fatima Goes Early to the Okra Fields” in the same year, his affiliation with two generation that places him among the poets of the seventies stems from the spirit of his poem that formed its beginnings in those years. He carried several influences coming from different poetics, on top of which was the poetry of Palestinian resistance, and the translations, those translations made by Saadi Yousef, along with others, of poetry from different languages, cultures and geography.

In the Palestinian and Jordanian poem, Abu Louz, and the sons of his generation, mixed the resistive tone and enthusiasm with flux, ritual, ritual and visionary anthems, and ontological reflections that came from the translations. Thus, Abu Louz’s poem was enriched by many voices, while it moves from a direct, sloganeering, and sometimes squawking tone, to a poetic form that embraces echoes and pastoral experiences, the infernal Baudelaire tone, and the emotional sensuality, in the language of meditations and wisdom emerging from the impetuousness and dissenting tendency of Abu Louz’s poetry And a handful of his peers.

We can find these threads, which form the fabric of Abu Louz’s poem, in his latest collection of poetry “The Wife of Salt” (publications of the “Dubai Cultural Magazine” 2013), which collects writings belonging to the last fifteen years. Abu Louz, although he gets rid of the features of the slogans and the direct tone that were part of the world of his poem in its beginnings, yet he extracts from it the human tone of resistance and the stress on the impact of exile that gnaws at the poet’s bone and the flesh of his poem.

What is present strongly, then, are the pastoral elements, the infernal tone, the brutal dissenting tendency (and expressed by verbal lupus, which is reminiscent of the previous collection of Abu Louz “The Weary of the Wolf”, 1995), and the pure meditative language that characterizes short signed or signed prose poems, or Sentences and syllables in long poems in which the breathless rhythm rises and falls, and the poem is coherent around a specific focus, or it disintegrates and turns into a pile of images and rhythms and gets lost from its destination.

In the poem, “The Fog Pastures” the elements of the agricultural pastoral environment are present, mixed with the memory of a distant Firdawsi’s youth, fading dreams, and motherly tenderness that compensates for the absence of a symbolic dead father who bequeaths his revenge to his son and leads him to destruction like himself.

It can be said that Yousef Abu Louz seeks, in all of his poetry, to revolve around one subject that has no second: memory and loss. It expresses the experience of loss and missing by going back to childhood and youth, the lost lands, the homes he left, and the women he left or left him: Yesterday, I lost a home / Who “saw” a home similar to me / Who saw it? / Yesterday, / I loved the sweetest girl, / I lost her Like my house, which / I will love only him” (p. 66).

Writing poetry, in this case, is nothing but a desperate attempt to heal the rift of memory and loss, to restore the wall of oblivion. He, he says, writes poetry, to remember, "between salt and sugar ''.

Abu Louz is a member of the Jordanian Writers Society, and the General Secretariat of the General Union of Arab Writers and Literati. He publishes his poetic and literary productions in Arab newspapers and magazines, and has participated in many cultural festivals.

Prizes

 * Arar Literary Prize from the Jordanian Writers Society.
 * The Arab Writers Union Award in Damascus for his Diwan Fatima goes early to the fields.
 * 2014: Taryam Omran Press Award.
 * 2014: Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

His books
Among his poetry collections:


 * Kaitosha Morning, O Camp, 1983
 * Fatima Goes Early to the Fields, 1983
 * Blood Texts, 1987
 * The Weary of the Wolf, 1992
 * Salt wife, 2013

From his books:


 * A vision and a bow: reading in Gulf literature