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New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.


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Born: January 1, 1930 (age 95)
Bio: Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis, 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.
Known for:
  1. An Introduction to Arab Poetics (1985)
  2. Sufism and Surrealism (2005)
  3. A Time Between Ashes And Roses (2004)
  4. The pages of day and night (1982)
  5. Mihyar of Damascus, his songs (2007)

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