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Concerto al-Quds = Kūnshīrtū al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Margellos world republic of letters bookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Description: 85 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300197648
  • 0300197640
Other title: كونشيرتو القدس Other title:
  • Kūnshīrtū al-Quds
Uniform titles:
  • Kūnshīrtū al-Quds. English
Related works:
  • Translation of (work): Adūnīs, 1930- Kūnshīrtū al-Quds. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I. The meaning. Heavenly summary -- A sky on Earth -- A rope between a camel and a tank -- A bridge to Job -- Dissection -- Afflictions -- Tempted by nothing: a song -- Tempted by everything: a song -- Part II. Images.
Summary: "A cri de cœur 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 Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in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."-- Provided by publisher.
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A cri de coeur on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet



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.

Part I. The meaning. Heavenly summary -- A sky on Earth -- A rope between a camel and a tank -- A bridge to Job -- Dissection -- Afflictions -- Tempted by nothing: a song -- Tempted by everything: a song -- Part II. Images.

"A cri de cœur 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."-- Provided by publisher.

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