Concerto al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.
Concerto al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.
Concerto al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.
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Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2018/5377
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MMS ID
Language
English
Arabic
(Language of original)Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
85 pages ; 21 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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.
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2017.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
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...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Concerto al-Quds / Adonis ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.
Parallel title
Kūnshīrtū al-Quds | كونشيرتو القدس
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A Margellos world republic of letters book
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2018/5377
Record Identifier
74VKV8MJvqwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8MJvqwd
Other Identifiers
ISBN
0300197640 (hardback)
9780300197648 (hardback)
DDC
892.716
MMS ID
991024187596502626
