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Concerto al-Quds = Kūnshīrtū al-Quds
- Title
- Concerto al-Quds = Kūnshīrtū al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.
- Author
- Adūnīs, 1930-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mattawa, Khaled
- Description
- 85 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A cri de cœur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet. At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa."--
- Series Statement
- A Margellos world republic of letters book
- Uniform Title
- Kūnshīrtū al-Quds. English
- Margellos world republic of letters book.
- Alternative Title
- Kūnshīrtū al-Quds.
- كونشيرتو القدس
- Kūnshīrtū al-Quds
- Subject
- Contents
- Part I. The meaning. Heavenly summary -- A sky on Earth -- A rope between a camel and a tank -- A bridge to Job -- Dissection -- Afflictions -- Tempted by nothing: a song -- Tempted by everything: a song -- Part II. Images.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-6531
- ISBN
- 9780300197648
- 0300197640
- LCCN
- 2017941088
- OCLC
- 1007825174
- Author
- Adūnīs, 1930- author.
- Title
- Concerto al-Quds = Kūnshīrtū al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Margellos world republic of letters bookMargellos world republic of letters book.
- Added Author
- Translation of (work): Adūnīs, 1930- Kūnshīrtū al-Quds. English.Mattawa, Khaled, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-6531