Новинки Адониса

Кажется, что биография поэта Али Ахмада Саида Эсбера сродни мифологическим сказаниям. Даже псевдоним «Адонис», выбранный во времена романтической молодости и проложивший дорогу к всемирной славе, говорит об этом. Переживший заключение, непонимание со стороны властей и издателей Адонис оказался в первых рядах новой арабской поэзии. Авантюрному выдумщику и скрупулёзному исследователю жизни Востока год из года пророчат Нобелевскую премию. Всю жизнь Адонис менял мир вокруг себя. На фоне раскалывающейся истории ему удалось создать новый облик арабского стиха. Теперь сирийскому правдоискателю удалось заговорить и по-русски.

Born in Syria, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot's on English-language verse. This volume serves as the first comprehensive survey of Adonis' work, allowing English readers to admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labours of the poet's own handpicked translator, Khaled Mattawa.
Experimental in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis' poetry sings exultantly of both the sweet promise of eros and the lingering problems of the self. Steeped in the anguish of exile and the uncertainty of existence, Adonis demonstrates the poet's profound affection for Arabic and European lyrical traditions even as his poems work to destabilize those very aesthetic and moral sensibilities. This collection positions the work of Adonis within the pantheon of the great poets of exile, including Cesar Vallejo, Joseph Brodsky, and Paul Celan, providing for English readers the most complete vision yet of the work of the man whom the cultural critic Edward Said called TODAY'S MOST DARING AND PROVOCATIVE ARAB POET.

“There is no doubt this selection will prove to be the standard by which all translations, readings, and studies of Adonis’s poetry in English will be judged. The sweeping canopy of his life’s achievement is astonishing in Khaled Mattawa’s vision. Mattawa’s lyrical rendition of Adonis’s intensely musical Arabic is unparalleled by any available translation, old or recent, of Adonis’s work in English.”—Fady Joudah, translator of If I Were Another: Poems by Mahmoud Darwish