Ebook {Epub PDF} If Only the Sea Could Sleep by Adonis

If only the sea could sleep: love poems. Green Integer Books (77), Los Angeles, , pages. ISBN , topics: | poetry | arabic. After struggling for several years to get hold of a book of Adonis' poetry,I managed to get this used copy on a visit to Los Angeles. Its body now, and mine, at this very minute. are one and the same”. ― Ali Ahmad Sa’id, If Only the Sea Could Sleep. 12 likes. Like. “My days are her name. The dreams, when the sky is sleepless. over my sorrow, are her name. The obsession is her name. ― Adonis, If Only the Sea Could Sleep. 2 likes. Like “If only we were not that seedling of Creation, Of Earth and its generations, If only we had remained simple Clay or Ember, Or something in between, Then we would not have to see This World, its Lord, and its Hell, twice over.”.

Adonis is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Adonis: Selected Poems (, translated by Khaled Mattawa), Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs (), If Only the Sea Could Sleep (), and The Blood of Adonis (), which won the International Poetry Forum's Syria-Lebanon Award. Adonis is also the author of the seminal work. They include Adonis: Selected Poems (), Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs (), If Only the Sea Could Sleep (), and The Blood of Adonis (), which won the International Poetry Forum's Syria-Lebanon Award. Adonis' has always sought to secularize the Arab world—to eliminate alienation caused by political Islam and ideology—but currently sees the Arabs as "a people becoming extinct." Adonis' extensive work includes: If Only the Sea Could Sleep, The Pages of Day and Night, A Time Between Ashes and Roses, An Introduction to Arab Poetics.

If only the sea could sleep: love poems. Green Integer Books (77), Los Angeles, , pages. ISBN , topics: | poetry | arabic. After struggling for several years to get hold of a book of Adonis' poetry,I managed to get this used copy on a visit to Los Angeles. Its body now, and mine, at this very minute. are one and the same”. ― Ali Ahmad Sa’id, If Only the Sea Could Sleep. 12 likes. Like. “My days are her name. The dreams, when the sky is sleepless. over my sorrow, are her name. The obsession is her name. Adonis, from “Unintended Worship,” If Only the Sea Could Sleep (Green Integer, ).