Here You Are Time

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This book is about Adonis’s poetic biography, his beginnings, his readings in poetry, his early writings, his friendships with Yusuf al-Khal and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, and the launch of the magazine “Shi’r” (Poetry) in 1957 with Yusuf al-Khal. It also covers the fierce criticism and attacks from critics and writers following the publication of the first issue of the magazine, which focused on new or free verse, his views on renewal in poetry and its connection to renewal in thought and taste, the creation of new forms liberated from meter and rhyme, the relationship between word and meaning in poetry, and other issues of poetry and criticism. Several critical studies have been published on Adonis’s literary output, including a book titled “Adonis Among the Critics,” in which the renowned Arab intellectual Edward Said presented him as the foremost international Arab poet. Many books have criticized and attacked him, while others have described him as a communicator. Despite his repeated nominations by some cultural institutions for the Nobel Prize, he has not yet received it.