Songs of Mihyar the Damascene Audre Lorde Nay Saysourinho

Nay Saysourinho

Transverse weaves between languages and forms

I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self-identicality—the distance between the self and the self that recognizes the self—into the socio-political sphere as a problem of temporality

and geographies

Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731)

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene Audre Lorde Nay SaysourinhoAdonis Written in the early 1960s, Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had dominated Arabic poetry until the 1950s. Drawing not only on Western influences, such as T. S. Eliot and Nietzsche, but on the deep tradition and history of Arabic poetry, Adonis accomplished a masterful and unprecedented transformation of