The Pages of Day and Night

by Adonis; Hazo, Samuel John

• ISBN13: 9780810160811
• ISBN10: 0810160811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-25
• Publisher: Marlboro Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Director, International Poetry Forum

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
The Passage	1	(1)
The Days	1	(1)
The Wanderer	2	(1)
The Mark of Sisyphus	2	(1)
The Sleep of Hands	3	(1)
Underground	3	(1)
Tree of Fire	4	(1)
The Captive	4	(1)
Hunger	5	(1)
The Messenger	6	(1)
The Past	7	(1)
About the Leaves	8	(1)
The Call	9	(1)
In the Forest	10	(1)
The Pages of Day and Night	11	(1)
A Tree	12	(1)
A Mirror for Khalida	13	(3)
A Mirror for My Body in Love	16	(1)
A Dream for Any Man	16	(1)
A Woman and a Man	17	(1)
Voices	18	(3)
The Stage and the Mirrors	21	(1)
A King, Mihyar	22	(1)
His Voice	23	(1)
Mount Suneen	23	(1)
A World of Magic	24	(1)
Presence	24	(1)
Finally	25	(1)
The Traveler	25	(1)
Death	26