Adonis Selected Poems 1st Edition by Khaled Mattawa Adonis ISBN 0300153066 9780300153064

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ISBN 10: 0300153066 
ISBN 13: 9780300153064
Author: Khaled Mattawa Adonis

The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today

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.”

Adonis Selected Poems 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Early Voices – Rebellion and Renewal (Selections from First Poems, Leaves in the Wind, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene)

• “The Rebel’s Oath” (from First Poems)
• “To a Tyrant” (from Leaves in the Wind)
• “Mihyar’s Despair” (from Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashqi)
• “The Serpent and the Tree” (from Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashqi)
• “A Vision for Damascus” (from Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashqi)
• “The New Wilderness”

Part II: Transformations – Myth, History, and Exile (Selections from The Book of Transformations and Migrations, Theater and Mirrors)

• “Prometheus in the City” (from The Book of Transformations and Migrations)
• “A Mirror for Byzantium” (from Theater and Mirrors)
• “The Myth of the Second Birth” (from The Book of Transformations and Migrations)
• “Exile’s Map”
• “Fragments of a Journey”
• “The Prophet and the Well”

Part III: Singularities – Language, Being, and the Absolute (Selections from Singular Form of Plural, The Book of the Poem)

• “The Language of Stones” (from Singular Form of Plural)
• “A Glimpse of the Absolute”
• “The Poem as a Universe” (from The Book of the Poem)
• “Silence and the Word”
• “The Alchemy of Absence”
• “On the Nature of Becoming”

Part IV: Late Meditations – Wind, Water, and the Infinite (Selections from Index of the Works of the Wind, The Book of the Sea, and more recent works)

• “The Wind’s Testament” (from Index of the Works of the Wind)
• “Ode to the Endless Horizon”
• “The Book of the Sea: Preludes” (from The Book of the Sea)
• “A Prayer for Chaos”
• “The Call of the Unseen”
• “Where the Poem Ends, the World Begins”

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