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A Time Between Ashes & Roses
Adonis's poetry and prose writings have aroused much controversy in the Arab world, both for their provocative content and their arresting style. Grounded in traditional poetic styles, Adonis developed a new way of expressing modern sentiments. Although influenced by classical poets, Adonis started at...- $19.95
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Adonis: Selected Poems
The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today "Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical revelation."--Charles McGrath,...- $20.00
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Conversations in the Pyrenees
Adonis in the Pyrenees: another "conversation in the mountains" where a multiplicity of orients and occidents intermingle, where dialogue between Adonis, the major Arab-language poet at work today, and Pierre Joris, nomad poet between the United States, Europe, and North Africa, becomes polylogue, exchanging...- $16.50
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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs: His Songs
This breakthrough collection by a major world poet established a new direction in Arabic poetry.Author: AdonisISBN-10: 1934414085ISBN-13: 9781934414088Publisher: BOA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2008Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.03w x 0.35dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/16/2008 pg. 34- $16.00
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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs: His Songs
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis later moved to Lebanon and became a pivotal figure in the new poetry of the late 1960s. With the publication of Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs in 1963--widely viewed as a watershed moment in Arabic poetry--Adonis forged a...- $21.00
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Prophecy and Power: Violence and Islam II
Heralded as the greatest living Arab poet, Syrian-born Adonis is also a staunch critic of violence and despotism in the Islamic world. In this book, he explores the nature of political power in Islam by focusing on the figure of the prophet Mohammed as...- $19.95
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Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
Written in the early 1960s, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had dominated Arabic poetry until the 1950s. Drawing not...- $18.95
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The Pages of Day and Night
Calling poetry a "question that begets another question," Adonis sets into motion this stream of unending inquiry with difficult questions about exile, identity, language, politics, and religion. Repeatedly mentioned as a possible Nobel laureate, Adonis is a leading figure in twentieth-century Arabic poetry. Restless...- $15.95
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
A bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty yearsAuthor: Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih Al-QasimISBN-10: 0863565247ISBN-13: 9780863565243Publisher: Saqi BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.37d- $14.95
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