In spite of his anti-colonial attitudes, the great Iraqi poet, Abdul WahhabAl-Bayati does not see the West as the cultural or political antagonist or the center of hegemony and colonial power. In his response to domestic predicaments and national transformations, he approaches the West as a source of potentialities to be utilized in his confrontation with local power centers particularly the ruling regimes. Attempting to reconcile eastern and Western cultures, Al-Bayati works toward a nexus of postcoloniality and modernism competing with the great masters of Western literature. Thus, in Al-Bayati's poetry, the experience of coloniality and postcoloniality is introduced in a complex manner revealing contradictory and ambivalent tendencies toward an imperial Western center. As an epitome of the hybridity of a literature produced under Western impact, during the decades of decolonization, Al-Bayati's poetry reflects a distinguished level of conceptual and epistemological knowledge. In this context, this paper investigates the incorporation of Western modernism in postcolonial Arabic poetry in order to explore issues of great significance integral the poetic movement in contemporary Arabic literature.