The third policeman

I have been following Ali Riad''s poetry since its beginnings. Like most people of this generation, he favored prose poetry, which lacked the energy of chanting and indulged in easy displacements and linguistic play. But in his book, "Separation," he takes his prose to the greatest extent he declares it. Poetry does not plead for condensed, telegraphic sentences, but for more narration, storytelli...