The Blood of Adonis: Selected Poems of Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said)
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said) was born in 1930 in a Syrian village near Tartus on the Mediterranean shore. Since 1956 he has lived in Lebanon where many of the poems included in this book were written. In 1970 a jury of his peers under the sponsorship of the International Poetry Forum named him winner of the Syria-Lebanon Award. The..... More
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