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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS SONGS OF MIHYAR THE D...

'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud  mirror  stone  thunder  eyelid 
desert  sea. Through a dead or dying land  Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and
dissent  part-Orpheus  part-Zarathustra. Where he goes  the austere building-blocks of his
world become the expressions of passionate emotion  of visionary exaltation and despairing
melancholy. The traditions of the Ancient Greeks  the Bible and the Quran flow about and
through him.Written in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s  Adonis's Songs of Mihyar the
Damascene did for Arabic poetry what The Waste Land did for English. These are poems against
authoritarianism and dogma  in which a new Noah would abandon his ark to dive with the
condemned  and in which surrealism and Sufi mysticism meet and intertwine. The result is a
masterpiece of world literature.Translated by Kareem James Abu Zeid and Ivan Eubanks'The most
eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' Edward Said

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