The Pages of Day and Night
Adonis / Hazo, Samuel
Describing Adonis as a "poet of the beyond, of restlessness and questioning, a seeker after the eternal moment of freshness and the time of possibilities", the critic Kamal Abu Deeb goes on to say, "Both as a theorist and a poet, Adonis is the writer with the greatest influence in Arabic poetry today. . . . A rebel and force of destruction, but also a force of positive rejection and with a tormenting love for his culture and his country, he is...