The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy

Poetry as Spiritual Practice

By (author) Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Book cover: The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy

Extent: 170, 170 pages

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Subjects: French Studies, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies

Series volume number: 12

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2021)

ISBN: 9781948488310

6.97 x 10 inches

Price: $49.95

In stock

PDF (Published)

(June 2021)

ISBN: 9781948488327

Price: $25.00

This book examines the work of two major poets who wrote in the second half of the twentieth century, Yves Bonnefoy of France and the Syrian-born Adonis (born Ali Ahmed Said). In conducting close readings of key moments from their respective poetry, the author illustrates how both of these writers, in their own unique ways, construct poetry as a form of spiritual practice, that is, as a way of transforming both the poet’s and the implied reader’s ontological, perceptual, and creative relationships with their internal and external worlds.

  • By (author) Kareem James Abu-Zeid