Songs of Mihyar the Damascene Subterflect

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene SubterflectAdonis 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

history and language

Or can powerlessness only be transferred as fetish

exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect

here and there

or dramatis personae set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative

thinking and feeling

political and literary manifesto

allesomvattende biografie van Sylvia Plath

000 Years in Sing Sing

Blanca Varela is destined to inspire awe and summon new readers for years to come

Nancy Perloff

Challenging the very notion of an author’s hold over these texts