From The Orient & The Desert

Ghazi A. Algosaibi’s published works of Arabic poetry include Poems from the Pearl Islands ; Drops of Thirst ; Battle without Flags ; Romantic Verses ; Yes Riyadh ; Fever ; Return to Precious Places ; Flowers in Sana’s Braids ; Obituary of a Former Knight ; and Necklace of Stones . His prose works in Arabic and in English include From Here and There ; In My Humble Opinion ; More of My Humble Opinion ; Face to Face with Development ; Poetry I Liked ; A Life in Poetry ; A Hundred Rose Petals ; The Cultural Invasion ; Arabian Essays ; and The Gulf Crisis: an Attempt to Understand . The latter two were published by Kegan Paul International. The 15 poems in this collection, which is illustrated with drawings by the artist Andrew Vicari, are entitled The Orient ; Rain ; Let Us Briefly Dream ; Small Thoughts ; The Curse ; Yearning ; When Yara Smiles ; Your Eyes ; Sadness ; When I Am With You ; Can You? ; Words of Love ; A Song ; A Man Dies ; and Sahara .