One poem in this language, simply titled "The Book," is set centrally on a page surrounded by needling comments from fictional critics.
One poem in this language, simply titled "The Book," is set centrally on a page surrounded by needling comments from fictional critics. The author of that work wrote "I live between the plague and the fire" in "The Fall," which opens a 1963 book of verse interspersed with prose poems labeled "Psalms." A controversial thesis claiming that the earliest poetic works in this language were fabricated was put forth by a man often considered the "dean" of this language's literature, who in his autobiographical The Days recounted his impoverished upbringing and blindness. A poetry collection titled after the "songs" of Mihyar earned a perennial Nobel candidacy for a poet writing in this language, whose other poets include Mahmoud Darwish. Adonis and Taha Hussein are authors of, for 10 points, what language whose classical literary tradition is exemplified by The Thousand and One Nights?
One poem in this language, simply titled "The Book," is set centrally on a page surrounded by needling comments from fictional critics.
Arabic