Este es mi nombre

Lebanese poet of Syrian origin, Adonis is one of today's leading writers in the Arabic language. "This is my name" is one of the three great poems that make up this book to which it gives its title. It is accompanied by "Prologue to the history of the Kings of Taifas", as an overture, and "Epitaph for New York" as a closing. All of them, apart from excellent poetic pieces, are a faithful reflection of the torrential style and away from the academicism of the poet. If "This is my name", is marked by the disaster of June 1967, when Israel invaded the Palestinian territories and part of Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, "Epitaph for New York" (in which a careful reading of Poeta in New York by García Lorca) establishes a dynamic of opposites to the US imperialism of the 1970s. The New York that symbolizes it is opposed by the nuclei of resistance of those years: Palestine and Vietnam. The United States of Whitman and Lincoln is opposed to that of Nixon. The streets and districts of economic power (Wall Street, Fifth Avenue) are faced with the marginal neighborhoods (Harlem, Greenwich Village), which the poet turns into depositaries and witnesses of the future.