just fyi, the name of the poet is generally transliterated adonis, not adunis (pronounced "a-do-nees" in lebanese). it's not a typo -- he shares his nom de plume with the figure from mythology. adonis is a stock levantine deity, so you've got a lot of stuff named after him around here. apparently, the poet (born ali ahmad said asbar) picked it after getting too many rejection slips for submissions under his real name. as for the mythical adonis, his roots were in lebanon (his father was supposedly from byblos) and he died in what is now know as the adonis valley along the nahr ibrahim (aka adonis river) in mt. lebanon, causing the river to run red with his blood.