Concerto al-Quds by Adūnīs and translated by Khaled Mattawa

This is poetry from Syria.

Concerto al-Quds by Adūnīs translated by Khaled Mattawa is published by Yale University Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780300197648E12.

Concerto al-Quds, by Adūnīs, is a Arabic poetry collection from Syria, translated by Khaled Mattawa, published by Yale University Press in 2017. It is an Adonis collection with the scale of composition and city, where al-Quds becomes music, argument, history, and invocation. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation, but the chance to let one poet’s particular difficulty create its own weather.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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