It’s Nobel Day, which means that, around the world, curiosity-seekers such as myself will be glued to their computers at 1 p.m. CET. With “Arab Spring” chatter in the air, it becomes perhaps more likely but certainly less pleasant to… Read More ›
Adonis 
Adonis on How to Read ‘Real’ Arab Poetry
Adonis: “Ambiguous is how a reader describes a text that he cannot grasp, or that he cannot master in a way that turns it into a part of what he knows.”
A Review of Adonis: Selected Poems
It was 1988 when Adonis’s name was first connected with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
And, Why We Shouldn’t Listen to Poets about Politics
You’ll have to forgive John Donatich’s hagiographic essay about the Syrian poet Adonis, which just appeared in The Front Table, since Donatich is—after all—the director of Yale University Press, and thus flogging Adonis’s wonderful new book.
Adonis on What ‘Real Poetry’ Requires
It’s no longer Nobel season, but Adonis has a new book coming out in the U.S., so another flutter of press is to be expected. Yesterday’s piece in the NY Times followed the Syrian-French poet on a visit to a class that (his translator) Khaled Mattawa teaches at the University of Michigan.
