He was a Saudi Arabian politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family that is one of the oldest and richest trading families of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Al Gosaibi was considered among Saudi Arabia's topmost technocrats since the mid-1970s. The Majalla called him the "Godfather of Renovation".
Some poems from 6th-8th century authors and then more from 19th-20th century ones, and a few pages of quotations. The poems are short and impressionistic, not at all my usual fare. The book's tiny, though, and only took an hour to read, so I can't really call it a waste of time.