{"product_id":"songs-of-mihyar-the-damascene-penguin-modern-classics","title":"Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adonis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 25-02-2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780241483558\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e 'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion, of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy. The traditions of the Ancient Greeks, the Bible and the Quran flow about and through him.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWritten 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. 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 result is a masterpiece of world literature.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTranslated by Kareem James Abu Zeid and Ivan Eubanks\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'The most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' Edward Said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780241483558\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English, Arabic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50129676861744,"sku":"Trans_9780241483558","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/919VqnW-_DL.jpg?v=1757504600","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/songs-of-mihyar-the-damascene-penguin-modern-classics","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}