Adonis -

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Résumé :
Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh --T.p. verso.

Biographie:

Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) is an award-winning Syrian poet and essayist who led the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. He has written more than twenty books in his native Arabic, including the pioneering work An Introduction to Arab Poetics. He lives in Paris. Khaled Mattawa is assistant professor of language and literature at the University of Michigan and the author of the poetry volumes Ismaila Eclipse and Zodiac of Echoes.

Sommaire:
Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) is an award-winning Syrian poet and essayist who led the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. He has written more than twenty books in his native Arabic, including the pioneering work An Introduction to Arab Poetics. He lives in Paris. Khaled Mattawa is assistant professor of language and literature at the University of Michigan and the author of the poetry volumes Ismaila Eclipse and Zodiac of Echoes....

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) Selected Poems reveals the transformation of Adonis' style over the past five decades to a degree that has not been possible in the previous single collections of the poet's work in English translation... Without doubt, Adonis has changed the game of Arab poetry. With the publication of Khaled Mattawa's lucid translations in Selected Poems, Adonis may change the American poetry game, as well. (Stephan Delbos, The Prague Post)