Concerto al-Quds = Kūnshīrtū al-Quds /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adūnīs, 1930- (Author)
Other Authors: Mattawa, Khaled (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
Series:Margellos world republic of letters book.
Subjects:
Table of 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.