LA REMONTéE DES CENDRES: O POETA áRABE COMO CALíGRAFO DO MUNDO

This study analyses the way a specifically Arab poetics emerges in the work the French-speaking Moroccan poet Tahar Ben Jelloun, with special reference to La remontée des Cendres and Non Identifiés, poems about the martyrs of the Gulf War. Phenomenology is used in the analysis of these two poems as a vector for explaining the way the poet handles the material features, like the calligraphic art, absorbing and transforming them to create a peculiar, exclusive, distinctly and unmistakably Arab poetics.