Lebanese Poetry: Major Works of Pascal Assaf

The collection that made Assaf's name across Lebanon and the Arab world (2012). A 178-page volume of poems he described as "the voice of sharp sorrow and the voice of weariness"—dense with imagery, symbol, and existential darkness. 

‏‏‏‏‏المجموعة الشعرية التي رسّخت اسم عسّاف في لبنان والعالم العربي.‏

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Published in 2014, Assaf's collection of short prose—184 pages of compressed narratives attentive to the smallest movements of human life. Crossing freely between life and death, good and evil, his attempt to forge a new aesthetic within Arabic short fiction.

مجموعة عسّاف القصصية الصادرة عام 2014.‏

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Published in 2015, the first half of a two-part work. Its subject is an imagined beloved—a woman the poet vows to love in any form, even if she should turn out to be death itself. He would marry her, he writes, and they would have a daughter together, and name her Life.

صدر عام 2015، وهو الجزء الأول من عمل ثنائي.‏

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The 135-page second half of the two-part work. Where the first volume gave its devotion to a single imagined beloved, this one turns toward darker terrain—love remains central, but the poems venture freely into the territories of killing and death.

الجزء الثاني من العمل الثنائي، في 135 صفحة.‏

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Published in November 2016, a 127-page collection organized into four movements: Diaries, On Love, On Death, and On Poetry. Across prose poems and modern Arabic verse, Assaf reaches past the surface of things toward what he called the deeper inner truth of the self.

صدر في تشرين الثاني 2016، مجموعة شعرية من 127 صفحة.‏