INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE PETTY KINGS BY ADONIS* A greeting to Gamal Abdel Nasser, the first modern Arab leader who worked toward ending the age of the petty kings and beginning another age. There is nothing between the slaughter and the rose except a thread of sun, say: my ashes are a line of poetry and Ibn Abbad sharpens the sword between the head and the head, and Ibn The face of Jaffa is a child/Shall the withered tree thrive? Has the Earth become part of the image of the Virgin?/Who there convulses the East? The beautiful tempest has come but the beautiful ruin has not/A fugitive voice./ There was a head suspended talking deliriously, clouded in Fustat in the presence of the troops calling out I am the Caliph/ They were in a frenzy they prepared an ambush for the face of Ali/ It was a child and it was white or black, Jaffa, its trees and its sons and Jaffa./ They piled up, they rent apart the face of Ali/ The blood of the sacrificial victim is in the divining arrows, say: cemetery, do not say: my poetry was a rose and became tears.
Introduction To the History of the Petty Kings By Adonis Introduction To the History of the Petty Kings By Adonis
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