About the book

It is not a poetry collection in the traditional sense.

Poems, confessions, memories, and journeys intersect to narrate the voyage of a man attempting to understand the world through himself.

Inside the book

Four spaces where memory, love, alienation, and the self intersect.

  • Love

    What remains after absence.

  • Memory

    When details become a homeland.

  • Expatriation

    From Beirut to New York and everywhere in between.

  • Self

    A man searching for himself behind every melody.

Beirut. Paris. New York. And between them, so much absence.

Poems written between cities, airports, hotel rooms, memories, and what has yet to happen.

Samer

Samer does not write in search of the title of a poet,
but in search of something that can be saved with words.

Read Samer's story.

What readers are saying

Impressions from readers who found themselves among the words, memories, and emotions carried by the book.

★★★★★

"A book that touched me in a different way. Some of the texts felt as if they were written from my own memories, especially his talk about alienation, loss, and longing."

— Nicholas el Murr

★★★★★

“A truly different book. I felt that the texts were very close to emotions we experience but don't always know how to express.”

— Maria Saad

★★★★★

"One of the books you return to time and again. Each reading reveals a new meaning, and some sentences remain etched in your mind long after you close the book."

— Sonia el Abdo