Adonis
A Selection
1st Edition
Published on 24. November 1993
100 pages
978-0-300-16869-3 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- First Poems (1957)
- Love
- Secrets
- Elegies (for my Father)
- They Say I'm Done For
- Home
- The Banished
- Rains
- A Coat
- To a Soothsayer
- Labor Pains
- Obscure Distances
- Longing
- A Priestess
- Song
- Songs of Mihyar of Damascus (1961)
- Psalm
- Not a Star
- King Mihyar
- His Voice
- An Invitation to Death
- New Covenant
- The End of the Sky
- He Carries in His Eyes
- Voice
- The Wound
- Spell
- The Fall
- Dialogue
- Seven Days
- A Vision
- What to Leave Behind
- A Bridge of Tears
- I Told You
- It Should Suffice
- Lightning
- My Shadow and the Earth's
- Thunderbolt
- A Blood Offering
- Scene
- Dialogue
- Psalm
- Spell
- Farewell
- The Flood
- Adam
- Migrations and Transformations in the Regions of Night and Day (1965)
- Flower of Alchemy
- Tree of the East
- Tree of Winding Curves
- Tree of Fire
- Morning Tree
- Tree of Melancholy
- Season of Tears
- Tree
- Tree
- Tree
- Tree
- Tree
- Tree
- Tree
- Stage and Mirrors (1968)
- A Woman and a Man
- Man's Song
- Woman's Song
- The Hungry One
- Rage
- Four Songs for Tamorlane
- A Mirror for a Tyrant
- Bullet
- Two Poets
- A Mirror for a Dream
- A Mirror for a Question
- A Mirror for the Twentieth Century
- A Mirror for Clouds
- A Mirror for Khalida
- The Martyr
- A Mirror for Beirut
- A Mirror for the Lover's Body
- A Mirror for the Hussein Mosque
- West and East
- A Time Between Ashes and Roses (1971)
- This Is My Name
- Singular in a Plural Form (1975)
- Body
- The Book of Similarities and Beginnings (1980)
- Search
- The Poets
- The Experiment
- Children
- Prodigal
- The Beginning of Doubt
- The Beginning of Poetry
- The Beginning of the Book
- The Beginning of Love
- The Beginning of the Road
- The Beginning of Sex
- The Beginning of the Name
- The Beginning of Encounter
- The Beginning of Sex II
- The Beginning of Wind
- The Beginning of Death
- The Beginning of Pronunciation
- The Beginning of Narration
- The Beginning of Speech
- The Book of Siege (1985)
- Desert
- Persons
- Candlelight
- The Child Running Inside Memory
- Desire Moving Through Maps of Matter (1987)
- Desire Moving Through Maps of Matter
- The Cradle (excerpt)
- The Joy Implement (excerpt)
- Celebrating Vague-Clear Things (1988)
- Celebrating Childhood
- Celebrating Death
- Celebrating Abu Tammam
- Celebrating Al-Ma'ari
- Another Alphabet (1994)
- In the Embrace of Another Alphabet
- Prophesy, O Blind One (2003)
- Concerto for the Road to Dante's Church
- Concerto for 11th/September/2001 B.C.
- Concerto for the Veiled Christ
- I Imagine a Poet
- Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea (2003)
- The rose leaves its flowerbed
- Your mouth's light, no redness
- In her name
- I wake and ask dawn about you: Have you woken?
- I imagine my love
- Our night is quiet
- Every day we reach toward our bodies-
- When we meet wherever out steps take us in cities
- Love, give him, another body
- Every day
- Moon-how kind the moon is
- How can I call what is between us a past?
- ''Each love is a misery''-
- Maybe
- I imagine I am the sound of singing
- From nothing
- I will not sing my song-
- Ah, no
- Let's return
- I don't love you except for that I hated you once
- I measured myself to the woman I imagined
- I will visit the place that was summer for us
- Bitter insomnia comes to light its candles
- I check my house at night I turn on lights
- I began to love that bed covered with our day
- Me sleeping? No sleep, only wakefulness that pains me
- Orpheus-I can swear that I see him-
- I learn-I insert my eyes among your eyes' alphabet
- Time is not a bed, the earth is not sleep
- Dusk takes time by the throat
- What did we lose, what was lost in us?
- I vow that you are the root-I tried to read
- After all this roving that has filled the world
- Life took us to it, tossed us
- Every time you say, ''These are my paths etched on you,'' languages
- A barrier between us-
- A room betrayed by sleep No dream And night is a grave
- Will it console you that the clouds come and go in seconds
- Sunset-
- Here's her house-
- Have I told you the wound? But (in between there was a lot
- What is he saying?
- Printer of the Planets' Books (2008)
- You Are in the Village Then
- Wakefulness
- Rag
- Music
- Motion
- War
- Face
- Red
- Café Shatila in Rodha
- Ruins
- The Stars at Hand
- The Childhood Behind the Door
- To the Poem
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
