* 'Adonis's discourse is connected to modernity and engages within its horizons.'

* 'In Adonis's view, writing is an ongoing reading and a constant search, aligned with the transformations in perception, representation, and understanding required by modernity to participate in history with awareness, not illusion.'

'Where do you lead me, O pen? And what are you doing to me, O alphabet?' Writing in Adonis's experience is not a transcendent concept or a mere theoretical abstraction; it is an experience in which the pen, with its mythical significance, supports the body with modern interpretations. The alphabet intertwines, declaring a beginning through a rhythm that establishes unique ways for poem construction. It is an experience that seeks boundaries and even the beyond, opening up to the forgotten in the memory of things and words. The poem in Adonis's experience flashes to illuminate paths of questioning rather than answering, inviting you to listen to the other within you, to the voice of the body deriving from its consciousness what familiarity has concealed, and to the voice of the universe flowing through time and space, captured by the self to compose a text that defies classification and resists imitation or replication. Omar Hafidh is a Tunisian writer and researcher interested in modern poetry and its issues. He studied at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. He published 'Experimentation in the Writings of Ibrahim Derghouthi: Stories and Novels'. He has numerous articles published in Tunisian and Arab magazines such as the Lebanese Al-Adab Magazine and the Moroccan House of Poetry Magazine.

Publishing house: Dar Al Saqi Publishing and Distribution

Number of Pages: 240

Year of publication: 2015