Poetry that reaches all the people is essentially superficial. Real poetry requires effort because it requires the reader to become, like the poet, a creator. Reading is not reception. Mattawa’s Adonis: Selected Poems honors the idea of reader as creator, particularly in its presentation of the bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. By Adonis. Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks. I amuse myself with my country. I glimpse its future approaching on the eyelashes of an ostrich, I toy with its history and its days, I strike it with stones and thunderbolts. I extinguish its lamps and light its windows, and at the other end of day I inaugurate its history. The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today. Born in Syria in , 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.
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. Adonis: Selected Poems is thus a landmark: the collection matters not just because of its internal beauty, but because it provides a window on the career of one of Arabic literature's transformational poets."— M. Lynx Qualey, Kenyon Review. Selected Poems by Adonis Sinan Antoon Published online: 02 Apr To cite this article: Sinan Antoon () Selected Poems by Adonis, Translation Review, , , DOI: / The pieces in Selected Poems were chosen from fourteen individual works published.
Khaled Mattawa was the winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for Adonis: Selected Poems, given by PEN American Center Khaled Mattawa was chosen as a MacArthur Fellow. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effecive institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today. Born in Syria in , 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. "Adonis is one of the great luminaries in contemporary world poetry, and with this impressive and entrancing volume of selected poems in English, superbly translated by Khaled Mattawa, his pool of admirers here in America is bound to increase."—Spencer Dew, Rain Taxi Review of Books.
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