In this book, the great critic Omar Fakhoury collects a collection of controversial articles about poetry and poets. The book begins with the essay "The Poet and His Sons," in which he discusses the poet's bias toward his early writings out of "filial tenderness" and not merely literary vanity. The author addresses various topics such as poetic inspiration, the purposes and development of poetry, the audience for poetry, the woman poet and the woman in poetry, biographies and reviews of poets, and how critics manipulate the ranking of poets for personal purposes. Fakhoury presents a realistic analysis that deals with the relationship between poetry and the vocabulary of the era in which it was written, and it is characterized by severity at times, as he describes some poetry as bad and denies its poeticism, praising their mastery of other arts far from poetry. This book presents a deep and new critical vision in the field of Arabic literature and poetry.