\'The greatest living poet of the Arab world\' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea.
The result is a masterpiece of world literature..
These are poems against authoritarianism and dogma, in which a new Noah would abandon his ark to dive with the condemned, and in which surrealism and Sufi mysticism meet and intertwine.
The traditions of the Ancient Greeks, the Bible and the Quran flow about and through him.
Written in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s, Adonis\'s Songs of Mihyar the Damascene did for Arabic poetry what The Waste Land did for English.
Where he goes, the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion, of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy.
Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. \'The greatest living poet of the Arab world\' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea
