Adonis (poet) - Wikipedia
WEBAli Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر, North Levantine: Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕali ˈʔaħmad saˈʕiːd ˈʔesbeɾ]; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس Arabic pronunciation: [ʔadoːˈniːs]), …
Adonis | The Poetry Foundation
WEBBreaking with the tradition of formal structure in Arabic poetry, Adonis experiments with free verse, variable meters, and prose poetry as he engages themes of exile and transformation, in a voice at once playful and prophetic.
Adonis | Biography, Poetry, & Facts | Britannica
WEBAdonis, Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic who was a leader of the modernist movement in contemporary Arabic poetry.
The Man Who Remade Arabic Poetry - The New Yorker
WEBDec 11, 2017 — In March, 2011, when civil protests broke out in cities and towns across Syria, the country’s most famous poet, Adonis—who is in his eighties and has lived in exile since the...
About Adonis - Academy of American Poets
WEBIn 1956, after a year-long imprisonment for political activities, Adonis fled Syria for Beirut, Lebanon. He joined a vibrant community of artists, writers, and exiles in Beirut, and cofounded and edited Sh'ir, and later Muwaqaf, both progressive journals of …
Adonis’s Poems of Ruin and Renewal - The Paris Review
WEBApr 29, 2019 — Adonis’s Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is the central book of poems in modern Arabic literature. Published in 1961, its status in Arabic is comparable to The Waste Land in English or Duino Elegies in German. (Adonis collaborated on a translation of Eliot’s long poem while writing Mihyar).
A Visit With the Arabic Poet Adonis - The New York Times
WEBOct 17, 2010 — Adonis, the Syrian-born poet and perennial Nobel favorite, has a new volume of selected poems and an upcoming reading at the 92nd Street Y.
“Now the Writing Starts”: An Interview with Adonis - The New …
WEBApr 16, 2016 — In the Arab world, they say, everyone is a poet. And everyone knows Adonis, the Paris-based Syrian exile who invented the Arabic prose poem and who has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Adonis (poet) - Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 14, 2018 — Adonis, born Ali Ahmad Said in 1930, was a Lebanese poet whose work reflected a radical vision of Arab history and culture, as well as a hunger for change and modernity. Adonis is the pen name of Ali Ahmad Said, one of the most prominent Arab writers in the post- World War II period.
Adonis - Griffin Poetry Prize
WEBAdonis (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber) is a Syrian poet and essayist who led the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the second half of the 20th century. He has written more than 20 books in his native Arabic, including the pioneering work An Introduction to Arab Poetics.
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