Samuel Hazo, Translator, Adonis, Author, Adunis, Author Marlboro Press $22.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-910395-96-0
Adonis (Ali Ahmen Said), a two-time Nobel finalist and the author of more than 20 books of poetry, prose and literary criticism, is arguably the leading Arabic poet in the world. As he states in his preface, ``Poetry is . . . a perpetual beginning,''
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Adonis, Author, Adnan Haydar, Translator, Michael Beard, Translator , trans. from the Arabic by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard. BOA $21 (120p) ISBN 978-1-934414-08-8
The availability in English of this seminal, startling, volatile, founding work of Arabic-language modernism is a welcome literary event. Adonis, born in Syria in 1930, is likely the most original Arabic poet of his generation; “Mihar”...
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Adonis, trans. from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa. Yale Univ., $25 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-300-19764-8
In this stunning volume about Jerusalem (al-Quds in Arabic), Syrian poet Adonis, who has been hailed as a founding voice in Arabic-language modernism, envisions the poem as a space for dialogue between traditions, nations, and historical milieux....
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