Youcef Oughlici Poetry

Yocef oughlici poetry

While was drafting the: «Anthology of the Algerian modern poetry » translated into Arabic I have selected for the poet Youcef Oughlici two poems from his collection: «Pains of a willow in the seasons of storms»; The two poems were:«Disappointment» and «triumph», and after the publication of his second collection of poems entitled:« Taghribat Djaafar Ettiar».
And after reading it I was fascinated by his flash poems so that I decided to add some of them to the mentioned Anthology. Later on I realized that I have in my possession a considerable number of translated poems of my friend the poet Youcef Oughlici, so I thought of gathering them in a separate collection, and thus I did after subjoining to them other ones from the two collections.
And as the master hunch of the poet was his greatest perception of the pains and the sufferings of his country, and his nation; the anguishes of the Hachimite willow, the disappointment in the Arabic and the Islamic unity and its rising, in addition to his apprehension about its issue towards the universal cultural and civilizational challenges, and his personal frustrations, I have chosen to entitle this translated collection: «Torments of the Green Melody».
For Youcef Oughlici the poem is a magical arm towards the storms to face these anxieties, his writings are based on the duality: the wind/ the willow ; The two extremities of the conflict between what is, and what it must be.
The poet in what he called: a visa written as a foreword to his first collection said: «It is black, sad papers.. And I will never consent to them to be veiled by this nightly dusky color If I have not written them in seasons where my heart hull was during them exposed to various forms of earthquakes, volcanoes, grooves and emotional routs…And the relief of my poetical island –at that time–was mined with the lava of the ouf, and the squibs of the ah, and threatened by the storms of the non seasonal pains and what follow it of the floods of tears». This passage explains clearly the poetical experience of the poet and his attachment to the concerns of his society,so that the poems came yearning to realize a particular dream; an everlasting green dream dyed with the values of truth, goodness and beauty.
For all that I opted for this title: «Torments of the Green Melody », and thus this translated collection came to existence…
The present collection contains eighteen poem; seven from the first collection « Pains of a Willow in the Seasons of Storms»; Disappointment, triumph, amazement, frost, the poem of convulsion, fondness and the departure of the doves; and eleven from the second one diary of the century witness, storm, cloud, incarnation, fright, no, fate, exile, a not written billboard of Ahmed Mattar, and they ask you, and a query.
In this translation we have focused on the semantic aspect of the poems because we are interested in picking up the deepest meanings the poet wants to state, and for that reason we have chosen the free verse in order not to concentrate on the metrics at the expense of the meaning.
And If translation at the best is an echo as George Borrow said, we hope in the National Bureau of Translation to be a positive echo for our Algerian poets and writers, and we hope to succeed in conducting the voice of the Algerian prose and verse to other hearts and other spaces.

Ahcene Douas
President of the National Bureau of Translation
The National Cultural league of Creation.