Name: Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
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Author: Adonis
ISBN: 9780811227650

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Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Author

Adonis

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811227650

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Synopsis "Songs of Mihyar the Damascene "

Written while Adonis was on a scholarship in Paris from 1960 to 1961, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world. Drawing not only on Western influences, such as T. S. Eliot and Nietzsche, but on his own cultures deep poetry traditions, Adonis single-handedly accomplished a masterful and radical transformation of the rigid formal structures and themes of Arabic poetry. The name Mihyar has no inherent meaning in Arabic, though its root letters mean to destroy, topple, demolish. Mihyar is Adoniss poetic alter ego, his Zarathustra figure (in his own words), who has come to smash through any monolithic vision of Arab cultureincluding certain orthodox Islamic viewsin favor of a more diverse and open-ended outlook. Songs of Mihyar is a masterpiece of world literature that rewritesthrough Mediterranean myths and renegade Arabic mysticswhat it means to be an Arab in the modern world.

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