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Overview
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 states, 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.
About the Author:
Adonis was born Ali Ahmad Said in 1930 in Syria. As a boy he was educated at home by his father and later studied in Tartans, in Latakia, and at the University of Damascus. After military service, half of which he spent in prison for political activities, he made his way to Beirut and in 1960 became a Lebanese citizen. Since 1980 he has lived in Paris and taught at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Adonis is the author of more than twenty books as a poet, an editor, a translator, and a literary critic.
Samuel Hazo is the McAnulty Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duquesne University. A widely published poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator, Hazo is a former National Book Award finalist and in 1993 was named Pennsylvania's first state poet. His most recent works are the poetry collection As They Sail and the novel Stills.
Synopsis
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 states, 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.
About the Author:
Adonis was born Ali Ahmad Said in 1930 in Syria. As a boy he was educated at home by his father and later studied in Tartans, in Latakia, and at the University of Damascus. After military service, half of which he spent in prison for political activities, he made his way to Beirut and in 1960 became a Lebanese citizen. Since 1980 he has lived in Paris and taught at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Adonis is the author of more than twenty books as a poet, an editor, a translator, and a literary critic.
Samuel Hazo is the McAnulty Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duquesne University. A widely published poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator, Hazo is a former National Book Award finalist and in 1993 was named Pennsylvania's first state poet. His most recent works are the poetry collection As They Sail and the novel Stills.
Publishers Weekly
This is an immensely satisfying . . . collection of poems—continuing the poet's restless, metaphysical exploration into 'everything strange.