The Blood of Adonis.

ADONIS [ALI AHMED SAID],.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 138130

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971.

First edition of the poet’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in both English and Arabic on the title page, “For Matthew friend in poetry, with my great sympathy Adonis Paris 15.1.2008.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Samuel Hazo.

Modernist novelist Adonis has won the 2007 Bjørnson Prize and the 2011 Goethe Prize. The Blood of Adonis continues Adonis' pioneering of modern Arabic poetry. The poet is often seen as a rebel, an iconoclast who follows his own rules who said "Arabic poetry is not the monolith this dominant critical view suggests, but is pluralistic, sometimes to the point of self-contradiction."