| Edition |
A New Directions paperback original. |
| Description |
xxi, 233 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232). |
| Summary |
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--back cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction by Robyn Creswell -- The Knight of Strange Words -- The Enchanter of Dust -- The Dead God -- The Pillars of Iram -- The Age of Insignificance -- The World's Edge -- Death Reborn. |
| Language |
Translated from the Arabic. |
| Subject |
Arabic poetry.
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Arabic poetry. (OCoLC)fst00812533
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| Added Author |
Creswell, Robyn, author of introduction.
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Abu-Zeid, Kareem James, translator.
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Eubanks, Ivan Seth, 1974- translator.
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| Added Title |
Aghānī Mihyār al-Dimashqī. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Adūnīs, 1930- author. Songs of Mihyar the Damascene First New Directions paperback edition. New York : New Directions Publishing, 2019 9780811227667 (DLC) 2018053904 |
| ISBN |
9780811227650 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0811227650 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780811227667 (ebook) |
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