Songs of Mihyar the Damascene Concrete Poetry " Not a Force of

" Not a Force of Nature makes me want to change everything

Stockholm-based Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's first collection to be published in English

anti-memoir

Kalm achteroverleunen is er niet bij

wanneer de dichter als kunstredacteur in dienst is van het communistische dagblad De Waarheid

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene Concrete Poetry " Not a Force ofAdonis Written in the early 1960s, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had dominated Arabic poetry until the 1950s. Drawing not only on Western influences, such as T. S. Eliot and Nietzsche, but on the deep tradition and history of Arabic poetry, Adonis accomplished a masterful and unprecedented transformation of