"Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.
Reproduction of the original.
Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis.
Sarah, looking out through the windscreen between the heads of her captors, saw below her a wide, shallow lake shining in the sunlight within a green girdle of poplars and willows. The flat, white houses of a town mounted the rising ...
A cri de coeur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a ...
Calling poetry a "question that begets another question," Adonis sets into motion this stream of unending inquiry with difficult questions about exile, identity, language, politics, and religion.
L. Wood, The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, Eugene, OR 1998, 17 believes the spirit is an angel. F. Bovon, Gespenst, Neues Bibel Lexicon, vol. 1, Zürich 1988, 830 writes that the spirit is a ghost. 244 Bovon, Gespenst, 830.
In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in ...
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Adonis Garage introduces a talent exquisitely keyed to the register of New York City?s pulse and to the heartbeat of the day.
She sprinkles nectar on Adonis's pooled blood, and magically appears the red anemone, the "wind flower," because its petals scatter in the wind.This Venus and Adonis is the story of Randy Maynard, a "blond Adonis" who takes a job with a big ...