Dafātir Mahyār al-Damishqī, al-Juz’ al-Sādis.: Arabic 2025

In "The Notebooks of Mihyar al-Dimashqi," the unity between Adonis the poet and Mihyar the symbol appears more detailed, clearer, and more deeply rooted in the questioning of the forbidden, repressed, and postponed, or the intimate, private, and everything related to longings, lusts, and desires. Writing becomes more vertical, and the cognitive field becomes broader and more transparent. Methods of expression become closer to the flash and the fragment, to the spark and the thought, in response to the fleeting, intermittent, and sudden explosions in this dense, lost, besieged, tormented, ambitious, complacent, aggressive, intrusive, imitative, and creative body called Arab life. Adonis is a Syrian poet, born in 1930 in the village of Qassabin in Syria. He adopted the name Adonis, inspired by the Phoenician legend of Adonis, breaking with Arabic naming conventions in 1948. He co-authored the magazine "Shi'r" (Poetry) in 1975 with Youssef Al-Khal. He then published the magazine "Mawaqif" (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 several international awards and honorary titles, and his works have been translated into numerous languages. Among his publications published by Dar Al Saqi are: "The Constant and the Changeable," "Diwan al-Nathr al-Arabi," "Diwan al-Shi'r al-Arabi," and "The Black Ocean."