My Anxiety Is a Spark: Selected Short Chapters from the Poetry of Adonis

This book is a collection of short poems written by Adonis, a Syrian poet living in France, in different periods. Adonis's short chapter establishes imaginative and beautiful connections between things and their metaphors, and infuses the poet's own emotions and ideas into them, making them full of interest, endless evocative, and impressive. Criticisms of backward and authoritarian Arab politics can be found everywhere in the book, lashings of corrupt and ugly social phenomena, accusations of long-standing ills in traditional Arab culture, and exposure of Western hegemony and colonialism that seek personal gain under various guises. The modernity manifested in his poems is separated from the conservative ideas that have always dominated the Arab world, and it is also connected with the spirit of change that has been obscured in the Arab cultural heritage. He advocates rationalism and enlightenment ideas, promotes human value and will, and strives to explore the mysterious unknown behind the tangible world in the practice of poetry, revealing the mysteries that accompany people, body, mind, instinct, intuition, and dreams. He always takes human freedom, dignity and liberation as his starting point and destination. He feels the world like a child, loves the world like a young man, and examines the world like an old man.