Adunis Quote

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


"The Funeral of New York" (1971), from The Pages of Day and Night, trans. Samuel Hazo and Esther Allen (Northwestern University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-810-16081-1).


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

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

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

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