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born 1930 Syria

Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, born 1 January 1930 (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر; transliterated: alî ahmadi s-sacîdi l-'asbar or Ali Ahmad Sa'id) (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس), is a Syrian poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. He has written more than twenty books in his native Arabic.

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Also known as: Adonis

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Poetry can only change the notion of relationships between things. Culture cannot change without a change in institutions.

I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.

New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.

The Funeral of New York (1971)

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