Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
Description
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 only on Western influences, such as T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, but on the deep tradition and history of Arabic poetry, Adonis accomplished a masterful and unprecedented transformation of the forms and themes of Arabic poetry, initiating a profound revaluation of cultural and poetic traditions. Songs of Mihyar is a masterpiece of world literature that rewrites--through Mediterranean myths and renegade Sufi mystics--what it means to be an Arab in the modern world.Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 30, 2019
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.1 X 0.8 X 7.9 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811227650
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About the Author
A perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, ADONIS, born Ali Ahmed Said Esber in the Syrian village Al-Qassabin in 1930, is one of the most influential modern Arab poets and cultural critics. He has received numerous honors, including the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Goethe Prize, and the PEN/Nabokov Award.
Kareem James Abu-Zeid is the translator of Tarek Eltayeb's The Palm House (AUC Press, 2011). He was runner-up in the 2010 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Cities without Palms.
The literary translator IVAN EUBANKS is the editor of the Pushkin Review and has a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages from Princeton University.
Robyn Creswell is a consulting editor for poetry at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is a former poetry editor of The Paris Review. He teaches Arabic literature at Yale University.
Reviews
Adonis's language casts a liturgical spell.--Robyn Creswell
Poetry for Adonis is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical revelation.--Charles McGrath
Poetry for Adonis is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical revelation.--Charles McGrath
