Introducing metapoesis in Arabic poetry -- Arabic poetry in the twentieth century -- The free verse movement: a metapoetic project -- The second generation: metapoesis in progress -- Metapoesis in the Abbasid age -- Audience, critics, and poetic...
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Introducing metapoesis in Arabic poetry -- Arabic poetry in the twentieth century -- The free verse movement: a metapoetic project -- The second generation: metapoesis in progress -- Metapoesis in the Abbasid age -- Audience, critics, and poetic debates -- Abbasid poets and reflections on poetry -- The abodes are not the abodes: the Abbasid meta-nasib -- The elegiac prelude: evoking voice in the qasidah -- Abu Nuwas: toying with the atlal motif -- Abu Tammam's elegiac preludes: abstraction and change -- The freeing of the atlal motifs: after Abu Tammam -- Crossing line after line: the Abbasid poetic rahil -- Abu Tammam herds "virgin meanings" -- Ibn al-Rumi journeys "line after line" -- A poem about a poem about a poem: two poets and a patron -- Al-Buhturi and 'Ubaydallah b. Tahir: a failed exachange -- A poem about a poem about a poem -- Poems to a friend: Ibn al-Rumi responds -- Conclusion. Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition expands the study of metapoetry to include the modernizing work of the first generation of Abbasid poets (8th and 9th century)