Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of Metapoetics in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015).

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.

• 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.