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Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (Paperback): Adonis

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (Paperback)

Adonis; Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Ivan Eubanks

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' Guardian Cloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion, of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy. The traditions of the Ancient Greeks, the Bible and the Quran flow about and through him. Written in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s, Adonis's Songs of Mihyar the Damascene did for Arabic poetry what The Waste Land did for English. These are poems against authoritarianism and dogma, in which a new Noah would abandon his ark to dive with the condemned, and in which surrealism and Sufi mysticism meet and intertwine. The result is a masterpiece of world literature. Translated by Kareem James Abu Zeid and Ivan Eubanks 'The most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' Edward Said

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Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Release date: February 2021
Authors: Adonis
Translators: Kareem James Abu-Zeid • Ivan Eubanks
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-241-48355-8
Languages: English
Subtitles: Arabic
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Islam
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Islam
LSN: 0-241-48355-7
Barcode: 9780241483558

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