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  <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ali Ahmad Said Asbar (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.

Adonis is a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry. He is often seen as a rebel, an iconoclast who follows his own rules. &quot;Arabic poetry is not the monolith this dominant critical view suggests, but is pluralistic, sometimes to the point of self-contradiction.&quot; Adonis' work is best appreciated by the pre-eminent Arab critic Kamal Abu Deeb, with whom he edited the journal Mawakif in Beirut in the 1970s.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Al Qassabin, Latakia</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[An Introduction to Arab Poetics]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Victims of a Map]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mahmoud Darwish]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Samih al-Qasim]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pages of Day and Night]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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        <book id="628514">
  <title><![CDATA[If Only the Sea Could Sleep (Green Integer Books 77)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nyanyian Mihyar dari Damaskus]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ahmad Mulyadi]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Goenawan Mohamad]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
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  <published>1961</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Time Between Ashes And Roses (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sufism And Surrealism]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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        <book id="6505124">
  <title><![CDATA[Perubahan-Perubahan Sang Pencinta]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ahmad Mulyadi]]></name>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="1222383">
  <title><![CDATA[The Blood of Adonis: Transpositions of Selected Poems of Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said) (Pitt poetry series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Identité inachevé]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) علي أحمد سعيد إسبر‎]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chantal Chawaf]]></name>
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