{"title":"Books by Adonis","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780863565243","title":"Victims of a Map","description":"Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published - in English or Arabic - and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295475642741,"sku":"9780863565243","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780863565243_17e33579-9a4d-4b20-8f47-a32aa54b45f5.jpg?v=1786015715"},{"product_id":"9780241483558","title":"Songs of Mihyar the Damascene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion, of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy. The traditions of the Ancient Greeks, the Bible and the Quran flow about and through him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s, Adonis's \u003ci\u003eSongs of Mihyar the Damascene\u003c\/i\u003e did for Arabic poetry what \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e did for English. These are poems against authoritarianism and dogma, in which a new Noah would abandon his ark to dive with the condemned, and in which surrealism and Sufi mysticism meet and intertwine. The result is a masterpiece of world literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Kareem James Abu Zeid and Ivan Eubanks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' Edward Said\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311646749045,"sku":"9780241483558","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241483558_75741373-d7f6-4df5-8d29-1eccc791e360.jpg?v=1786012656"},{"product_id":"adonis","title":"Adonis","description":"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, New York Times   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’s work, allowing English readers to admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labors of the poet’s own handpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa.      Daring in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis’s poetry sings of both the sweet promise of eros and the problems of the self. He writes of childhood (“Your childhood is a village. \/ You will never cross its boundaries \/ no matter how far you go”); of blood, bombs, and mutilation (“Murder has changed the city’s shape”); and of the anguish of exile (“‘I write poetry in the language of the country that sheltered me,’ said a young man who looked old”). Adonis demonstrates the poet’s affection for Arabic and European lyrical traditions even as his poems work to destabilize those sensibilities.      This collection positions the work of Adonis within the pantheon of the great poets of exile, including César Vallejo, Joseph Brodsky, and Paul Celan, providing for English readers the most complete vision yet of the work of the man whom the cultural critic Edward Said called “today’s most daring and provocative Arab poet.”","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466610483573,"sku":"9780300181258","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300181258.jpg?v=1785654668"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-adonis.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}