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Adonis - Selected Poems (Paperback)
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Adonis - Selected Poems (Paperback)
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis,
widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic
today "Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but
a way of thinking, something almost like mystical
revelation."-Charles McGrath, New York Times Born in Syria in 1930,
Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking
world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his
influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S.
Eliot's on English-language verse. This volume serves as the first
comprehensive survey of Adonis's work, allowing English readers to
admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labors
of the poet's own handpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa. Daring in
form and prophetic in tone, Adonis's poetry sings of both the sweet
promise of eros and the problems of the self. He writes of
childhood ("Your childhood is a village. / You will never cross its
boundaries / no matter how far you go"); of blood, bombs, and
mutilation ("Murder has changed the city's shape"); and of the
anguish of exile ("'I write poetry in the language of the country
that sheltered me,' said a young man who looked old"). Adonis
demonstrates the poet's affection for Arabic and European lyrical
traditions even as his poems work to destabilize those
sensibilities. This collection positions the work of Adonis within
the pantheon of the great poets of exile, including Cesar Vallejo,
Joseph Brodsky, and Paul Celan, providing for English readers the
most complete vision yet of the work of the man whom the cultural
critic Edward Said called "today's most daring and provocative Arab
poet."
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