Concerto al-Quds
By: Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Contributors: Adūnīs, 1930-; Mattawa, Khaled, translator
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780300197648
Subjects: Poetry
Work titles: Kūnshīrtū al-Quds
Description: "A cri de cœur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet. At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa."--
Notes: Translation from Arabic of: Kūnshīrtū al-Quds.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-83).
Table of contents: title: Part I. The meaning.; title: Heavenly summary --; title: A sky on Earth --; title: A rope between a camel and a tank --; title: A bridge to Job --; title: Dissection --; title: Afflictions --; title: Tempted by nothing: a song --; title: Tempted by everything: a song -- -- Part II.; title: Images.