Adunis

thumb|Adunis in 2011 Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, born 1 January 1930 (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر; transliterated: alî ahmadi s-sacîdi l-'asbar or Ali Ahmad Sa'id) (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس), is a Syrian poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. He has written more than twenty books in his native Arabic. Quotes New York is a womanholding, according to history,a rag called liberty with one handand strangling the earth with the other. "The Funeral of New York" (1971), from The Pages of Day and Night, trans. Samuel Hazo and Esther Allen (Northwestern University Press, 2000, 0-810-16081-1. I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought. Adunis, in: "" at nytimes, October 17, 2010 Poetry can only change the notion of relationships between things. Culture cannot change without a change in institutions. Adunis, in: "" at nytimes, October 17, 2010 External links Adonis (writer) Adunis Category:Arabic poets Category:Essayists Category:Authors from Syria Category:Lyricists Category:Translators from Syria Category:Secularists Category:Muslims from Syria Category:1930 births Category:Living people