Huda J. Fakhreddine explores the ‘new genre’ of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. This poetic form gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about Arabic poetry: its definition, its limits and its relation to its readers. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.
Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of Metapoetics in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015).
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There is no doubt that this study will be invaluable for students and scholars whose works and interests directly engage with the Arabic prose poem in particular and Arabic poetry in general.
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Introduction; 1. Precursors, Terms, and Manifestos between Theory and Practice; 2. The Prose Poem and the Arabic Tradition; 3. Adonis: Writing Where the World Begins and Begins Again; 4. Muhammad al-Maghut and Poetic Detachment; 5. Mahmoud Darwish as Middleman; 6. Salim Barakat: Poetry as Linguistic Conquest; 7. Wadīʿ Saʿāda and the Third Generation of Prose Poets; Afterword; Bibliography.