When the modernist movement in Arabic poetry was launched in the
1940s, it threatened to blur the distinctions between poetry and
everything else. The Arabic prose poem is probably the most
subversive and extreme manifestation of this blurring, often
described as an oxymoron, a non-genre, an anti-genre, a miracle and
even a conspiracy. This 'new genre' is here explored as a poetic
practice and as a critical lens which gave rise to a profound,
contentious and continuing debate about the definition of an Arabic
poem, its limits, and its relation to its readers. Huda 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.
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