When the Iraqi poet Al-Sayyab started writing poetry as a teenager, little did he know, he would grow up to be one of the most influential and greatest Arab poets to ever have lived. He, with a handful of other poets, would start a revolution in how Arabic poetry is written, liberating himself from the classical form of Arabic verse to a free-form of of verse. One other aspect I loved of his poetry is how he eventually started incorporating mythology in his poetry (Babylonian, Greek, Roman...), which was highly unusual for Arab poets of his time. This would furthermore cement his status as a titan of Arabic literature. Sadly, he passed away only at 38 years old, yet he left us with a rich corpus to be lived through generations.