If Only the Sea Could Sleep: Love Poems

by Adonis and أدونيس

Book Overview

Adonis has had more influence in terms of innovation and modernity than any other contemporary Arab poet. Twice he has been a finalist for the Nobel Prize.

For Adonis, poetry is a vision (ru'ya) a "leap outside of established concepts, a change in the order of things and in the way we look at them." His work often centers on the process of poetic creation. Selected from Al-A'mal al Shi'riyya (The Complete Works, 3 volumes),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931243298
• ISBN13: 9781931243292
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Green Integer
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.2"