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Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (Paperback)
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Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (Paperback)
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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