Adonis : selection poems / translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adūnīs, 1930- author.

Contributor:

Mattawa, Khaled, translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book.

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Adūnīs, 1930---Translations into English.

Adūnīs.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 399 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Connecticut] : London [England] : Yale University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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. Experimental in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis's poetry sings exultantly of both the sweet promise of eros and the lingering problems of the self. Steeped in the anguish of exile and the uncertainty of existence, Adonis demonstrates the poet's profound affection for Arabic and European lyrical traditions even as his poems work to destabilize those very aesthetic and moral sensibilities. This collection positions the work of Adonis within the pantheon of the great poets of exile, including César 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."

Contents:

Introduction

A note on the translation

Acknowledgments

First poems (1957)

Songs of Mihyar of Damascus (1961)

Migrations and transformations in the regions of night and day (1965)

Stage and mirrors (1968)

A time between ashes and roses (1971)

Singular in a plural form (1975)

The book of similarities and beginnings (1980)

The book of siege (1985)

Desire moving through maps of matter (1987)

Celebrating vague-clear things (1988)

Another alphabet (1994)

Prophesy, O blind one (2003)

Beginnings of the body, ends of the sea (2003)

Printer of the planets' books (2008)

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on October 5, 2021).

ISBN:

9780300168693

0300168691

OCLC:

743250936