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The author’s literary journey began at age thirteen. Marquardt Press, a small Ottawa publisher, published his first collection in 1967. Albert M. Jabara is not an ordinary author by any means. He developed a fresh style and brought to the literary world virgin metaphors. Please refer to critics reviews.
Thoughts Fall Like Rain
The vigor which one finds in his work is in a way representative of his culture and his own individuality. Some of his poems are so powerful that they touch one's heart immediately.
Abdul Khatib - Arabia The Islamic World Review, June 1984
Crime Scene Collection
Arnold Toynbee talks about an encounter between civilizations; Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington are concerned about the clash of civilizations, but Jabara believes that there are many skins beneath each skin of culture. He knows about these different layers of cultures. Skin is necessary to save human or animal flesh and bones, as different layers give them depth and save them from the scorching sun of hostile human attitude and inclination.
Muhammad Mujahid Syed - Arab News, May 15, 2008
Crime Scene Transcripts: Who Terrorized First?
His outrage contends that one's home is an intrinsic part of one's self and its cruel and forceful amputation is ultimate inhumanity. Still infuriated by massive worldwide inhumanities, his intransigence on the culpability of the perpetrators of evil around the world pervades. Explicitly describing the several forces in setting the stage for the crimes of our times, this book well expresses the anger of the author towards them all.
Rosaleen Leslie Dickson - True North Perspective, January 9, 2009
A Life of Many Paths
The tradition of classical Arabic poetry also influences him, for example in references to girls' eyes piercing with their glances. Jabara also attempts to use simple verses to express profound themes, in the manner of William Blake, but simplicity can easily descend into triteness.
John Hopkins - Arab News Features, July 9, 1984
Thoughts Fall Like Rain
Time and again his Oriental heritage shines through his words and imagery, a sort of verbal luminosity which at once distinguishes his work from most Canadian poetry. Throughout this volume, the Ottawa poet occupies a high plateau of thought and displays a noble quality of language. There is refreshing freedom in these pages from vulgarity regarded by all too many as a hallmark of contemporary verse. Jabara uses original and impressive figures of speech exquisitely well in this collection of his poems, except a few of which are cast of the conventional sonnet form. Albert Jabara reveals a fresh poetic approach to the human verities and succeeds well in clothing his philosophy in majestic, memorable and often moving words.
Don W. Thomson - The Ottawa Citizen, January 14, 1984
The Sonnet Gate and the Poem Cell
There is no question but that the poet has a strong feeling for words and a companion sense of imagery. He also has something to say with his words and imagery and says it, for the most part, very well indeed.
Frank Penn - The Ottawa Citizen, June 1974
نبوءة فوق الجليد: قطعة من حرير مشغولة بخيوط من قصب
إنَّ الكتابة عن (نبوءة فوق الجليد)، تحتاج إلى لغة تُوازي جمال أشعارها وتُقارب الشجن فيها. تُماثل صدقها وصفاء حزنها، وتكون على مستوى المحبة الناظمة لعقدها. فإذا كان الفكر نابعاً من تفكير الإنسان، فإن قصائد ألبيرت جبارة تنفرط لآلىء من دقات قلبه وتنتظم قلائد من ندى مشاعره، مع ادعاءه عدم القدرة على نظم أشعار رومانسية في ظل أجواء حروب تلتهم العرب والمسلمين.
Assadiq al-watan lughet al-Um
أربع مُسَلَّمات راسخة في معارفنا الفنية والشعرية والفكرية، ما زلنا نتداولها ونؤكد عليها منذ مئات السنين، حاول الكاتب عبد اللطيف جبارة في ديوانه الجديد "الصديق...الوطن...لغة الأم"، أن يجدّد فيها ويعيد رسم وجهها الآخر، ويثبت عملانيًا وفنيًا وفكريًا، أن هذه المسلمات التي رسخها النقاد في أدبياتنا، قابلة للتطوير والتغيير كما أنها خاضعة، من خلال تجدّد التجارب الانسانية والمواقف والظروف، لتبديل أثوابها ونسف الصورة النمطية التي تتمظهر بها في مضمونها وألوانها وأشكالها المختلفة.
Thoughts Fall Like Rain
Albert M. Jabara’s latest collection of poems, Thoughts Fall Like Rain like his previous collections, is a masterpiece of poetic inspiration and artistic expression. The eyes of the poet have magnified minute objects and ideas in poems like The Soldier of Allah, Bricklayer, Hastiness, Pen Trapped in a Muzzle, Friendship, The Lake, My Child, Mothers & Flowers, An Arab Family In Tel Aviv, My East, My East, and Angry Poet.
Syed Neaz Ahmad - Arab News, January 5, 1988
Prophecy on Ice
His latest book will not be his last, but maybe his final prophecy as he continues actively along his chosen paths; business-man, manufacturer, family man and poet, still dreaming of a “Rainbow in Jerusalem skies” where Judaism, Christianity and Islam will fly their banners, together. That is his prophecy, and the book explains why it is now on ice.
Rosaleen Dickson - National Press Club
Other Titles
Recent releases and rare and collectible print editions are offered by various internet book distributors and Mirath Publishing Inc.
Rare & Collectible
The Sonnet Gate and the Poem Cell, 1974 October Gull;
A Life of Many Paths, 1983 Jerusalem Publishing;
Thoughts Fall Like Rain, 1984 Wisdom House.
Save 40% on the print edition of new releases:
Love Moments Don’t Rust With Age;
The Paradise Allah Downsized To A Womb;
Where Martyrs Rise, Snowflakes Don’t Fall;
Assadiq – el-Watan -, Lughet el-Um (Arabic).
Born To Write, 1967 Marquardt Press
The Sonnet Gate And The Poem Cell, 1974 October Gull
A Life of Many Paths, 1983 Jerusalem Publishing
Thoughts Fall Like Rain, 1984 Wisdom House
The Paradise ALLAH Downsized To A Womb (new edition), 2018 Mirath Publishing
Romance with Death, 2018 (reprint) Mirath Publishing
Love Moments Don’t Rust with Age, (reprint) 2018 Mirath Publishing
Where Martyrs Rise, Snowflakes Don’t Fall (new edition), 2019 Mirath Publishing
Crime Scene Collection, 2007 Mirath Publishing
Crime Scene Transcripts: Who Terrorized First? 2008 Mirath Publishing
Prophecy on Ice, 2012 Mirath Publishing
Assadiq al-watan lughet al-Um (Arabic), 2013 Mirath Publishing, second edition 2018
New Release
A thirteen-old boy becomes obsessed with the Hereafter; develops a romance with death. Mom, two young siblings and he immigrated to Canada. The boy took a job three days after they settled in a west-end apartment. Fifteen clips take you on a journey; you don’t know if you are watching a screen or reading off a page; ten kismets combination of prose and verse tell a story of how a boy became a man; sacrificed schools to support a small family but continued a personal romance with death.
Son and father play the third voice, death the abstract guest and the romantic half in the story. The son follows the father with a stencil. The novel started half a century ago in a small Lebanese village, folded the last page in Ottawa after sixty-eight years. The story could fool your eyes as each page resembles a small movie screen. Real life and fiction in this style of writing vary by a hair.
Author: Albert M. Jabara
At age sixteen he wrote his first poetry collection and had it published by a local publisher in 1967. Today he has fifteen literary and poetic collections, hundreds of political and humanitarian articles in his unique theses style.
He worked for nearly six decades nonstop. He retired in 2014 from the havoc life of jobs and businesses he founded and operated. His pen today occupies his time.