Concerto Al-Quds

Informationen zum Autor Adonis , born Ali Ahmad Sa'id, is a Syrian poet. He has been a leading figure in the modernist movement in Arabic poetry since the mid-twentieth century. He lives in France. Khaled Mattawa is professor of English and creative writing at the University of Michigan. He has received a MacArthur grant and many other awards for his writings and translations. Klappentext "A cri de cur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet. At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa."-- Zusammenfassung A cri de c/ur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet

Product details

• Authors: Adonis, Adonis Adonis, Khaled (TRN) Adonis/ Mattawa
• Assisted by: Khaled Mattawa (Translation), Mattawa Khaled (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780300197648
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19764-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 205 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; World Republic of Letters (Yale); World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / Middle Eastern, Poetry by individual poets, Literature: history & criticism