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"My Anxiety is a Spark" is a short poem written by Adonis, a Syrian poet living in France, who wrote it in different periods. He always takes human freedom, dignity and liberation as his starting point and reference. He feels the world like a child, loves the world like a youth, and examines the world like an old man. Adonis's short chapters establish imaginative and beautiful connections between things and their metaphors, and infuse 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, and reveal the mysteries that accompany people, body, mind, instinct, intuition, and dreams.

The world has left me covered with wounds, but what grew out of the wounds were wings. The darkness that comes over me makes me shine even brighter. Loneliness is also a ladder for me to climb towards the light. This is the first Chinese version of a collection of poems by the world-famous Syrian poet Adonis. With Adonis's personal authorization, the translator selected and translated the seventeen collections of poems from the poet's entry into the poetry world nearly fifty years ago. The poet Adonis is a rebel with a clear attitude, who fights against power and current customs with his indomitable stubbornness. His poetry is a window into the current situation of Arab society. He was saddened by the suffering suffered by his motherland, lamented that he was not tolerated by his motherland, and felt sad and angry at the backwardness of the entire Arab nation.