| The Pages of Day and Night Contributor(s): Adonis (Author), Hazo, Samuel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810160811 ISBN-13: 9780810160811 Publisher: Marlboro Press OUR PRICE: $15.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2000 Annotation: Describing Adonis as a "poet of the beyond, of restlessness and questioning, a seeker after the eternal moment of freshness and the time of possibilities", the critic Kamal Abu Deeb goes on to say, "Both as a theorist and a poet, Adonis is the writer with the greatest influence in Arabic poetry today. . . . A rebel and force of destruction, but also a force of positive rejection and with a tormenting love for his culture and his country, he is certainly one of the greatest poets in the history of the language". "I write in a language that exiles me", Adonis state, and the poems in The Pages of Day and Night explore the conditions of that exile, representing life "between two hells" and giving an exquisite voice to the silence of absence. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 892.716 |
| LCCN: 00056638 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.06" W x 9.1" (0.47 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Calling poetry a question that begets another question, Adonis sets into motion this stream of unending inquiry with difficult questions about exile, identity, language, politics, and religion. Repeatedly mentioned as a possible Nobel laureate, Adonis is a leading figure in twentieth-century Arabic poetry. Restless and relentless, Adonis explores the pain and otherness of exile, a state so complete that absence replaces identity and becomes the exile's only presence. Exile can take many forms for the Arabic poet, who must practice his craft as an outsider, separated not only from the nation of his birth but from his own language; in the present as in the past, that exile can mean censorship, banishment, or death. Through these poems, Adonis gives an exquisite voice to the silence of absence. |
