Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

Synopsis

Written In The Early 1960s, Songs Of Mihyar The Damascene Is Widely Considered To Be The Apex Of The Modernist Poetry Movement In The Arab World, A Radical Departure From The Rigid Formal Structures That Had Dominated Arabic Poetry Until The 1950s. Drawing Not Only On Western Influences, Such As T.s. Eliot And Nietzsche, But On The Deep Tradition And History Of Arabic Poetry, Adonis Accomplished A Masterful And Unprecedented Transformation Of The Forms And Themes Of Arabic Poetry, Initiating A Profound Revaluation Of Cultural And Poetic Traditions. Songs Of Mihyar Is A Masterpiece Of World Literature That Rewrites--through Mediterranean Myths And Renegade Sufi Mystics--what It Means To Be An Arab In The Modern World--back Cover. Introduction By Robyn Creswell -- The Knight Of Strange Words -- The Enchanter Of Dust -- The Dead God -- The Pillars Of Iram -- The Age Of Insignificance -- The World's Edge -- Death Reborn. Adonis ; Introduction By Robyn Creswell ; Translated From The Arabic By Kareem James Abu-zeid And Ivan Eubanks. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 231-232). Translated From The Arabic.