Adonis
Subtitle: selected poems
By: translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Contributors: Mattawa, Khaled
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780300153064
Work titles: Poems
Description: 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' work, allowing English readers to admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labours of the poet's own handpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa. Experimental in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis' 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.
Notes: "Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-399).