Mhyar Al-Damishqi Notebooks - Adonis

In "Notebooks of Mhiar al-Damashqi," the unity between the poet Adonis and the symbol Mhiar appears more detailed, clearer, and farther-reaching in questioning the repressed, delayed, or intimate taboo, and everything related to passions, lusts, and desires. Writing becomes more vertical, and the knowledge field broader and more transparent. Expressions become closer to the flash and the fragment, to the spark and the thought, in response to fleeting, sudden, interrupted explosions, in this dense, lost, surrounded, tortured, ambitious, hesitant, attacking, invading, imitative, creative body called Arab life. Adonis is a Syrian poet, born in 1930 in Qasabin village in Syria. He adopted the name Adonis in homage to the Phoenician myth of Adonis, which broke away from traditional Arabic naming conventions since 1948. He published with Youssef al-Khal the magazine "Poetry" in 1975. Then he published the magazine "Positions" between 1969 and 1994. He is a visiting professor at universities and research centers in France, Switzerland, the United States, and Germany. He has received numerous international awards and honors, and his works have been translated into many languages. Among his publications from Dar Al Saqi: "The Constant and the Transformed," "The Arabic Prose Collection," "The Arabic Poetry Collection," "The Black Ocean."