Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Foreword vi
4. Note on Transliteration and Translation ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction: The Arabic Poem that Jumped the Fence 1
7. 1 Precursors, Terms and Manifestos between Theory and Practice 13
8. 2 The Prose Poem and the Arabic Tradition 34
9. 3 Adonis: Writing Where the World Begins and Begins Again 68
10. 4 Muhammad al-Maghut and Poetic Detachment 107
11. 5 Mahmoud Darwish as Middleman 138
12. 6 Salim Barakat: Poetry as Linguistic Conquest 171
13. 7 Wadiʿ Saʿadeh and the Third Generation of Prose Poets: An Arabic Poetics of Translation and Exophony 206
14. Afterword 254
15. Bibliography 258
16. Index 269