Notes
1. Adonis, Ihtifa’an bilashya’ al-Wadiha al-Ghamida, 96.
2. Adonis, Al-A`mal al-Shir`iyya, 3:284.
3. Adonis, Tanabba’ Ayyuha al-A`ma, 121.
4. Ibid., 133.
5. Adonis, Al-A`mal Al-Shir`iyya, 1:49.
6. Ibid., 1:56.
7. Ibid., 1:58.
8. Ibid., 1:375.
9. Ibid., 3:350.
10. Ibid., 1:66.
11. Ibid., 1:143.
12. Haydar and Beard have “He has no ancestors. His roots are in his footsteps.” Adonis, Mihyar of Damacus, 23.
13. Adonis, Al-A`mal al-Shir`iyya, 1:161.
14. Ibid., 1:285.
15. Ibid., 3:308.
16. Ibid., 1:124.
17. Ibid., 1:341.
18. Ibid., 3:306.
19. Adonis, Tanabba’ Ayyuha al-A`ma, 145.
20. Adonis, Al-A`mal Al-Kamila, 3:315
21. Ibid., 1:227.
22. Ibid., 1:550.
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Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon, poet, novelist, and translator, is associate professor of Arabic literature at New York University. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 National Translation Award. His third novel, The Corpse Washer, is forthcoming from Yale University Press.