Bayati, Abdul Wahab al-

Bayati, Abdul Wahab al-
▪ 2000

      Iraqi modernist poet who was a pioneer in the use of free verse rather than classical Arabic poetic forms; although al-Bayati spent a decade (1980–90) as Iraq's cultural attaché to Spain, his leftist political views and outspoken opposition to the Iraqi government caused him to spend most of his life in self-imposed exile. He was stripped of his citizenship in 1995, but his work, comprising more than 20 volumes of poetry, was never officially banned in Iraq (b. 1926, Baghdad, Iraq—d. Aug. 3, 1999, Damascus, Syria).

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