Book record
Concerto al-Quds
Adūnīs
Translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Syria
- ISBN
- 9780300197648