sentences:  Sargon Boulus was very aware of his gift for writing and consequently he did not want to be branded as an ethnic or political writer, rather a humanist "mining the hidden areas of what has been lived through" (Boulus, page 15) 1.Poets continue the work of past poets and Sargon considered himself part of that chain of privileged messengers of words.His inspiration emanates from the work of poets spanning from ninth century Abu Tammam to Wordsworth, Yeats, W. C. Williams and Henry Miller just to name a few.