ABSTRACT The prose poem, this hybrid, suspect, and contradictory proposition, gives rise to questions that call for more engaged scrutiny of every other established poetic form in Arabic, and especially the qaṣīda and the Arabic Free Verse poem. The prose poem does not only pose the question “what is poetry?,” but also, more subversively, urges us to ask: “what can be poetry in Arabic?” This is a question not so much concerned with defining as much as expanding and recharting. In a tradition that has long accepted very clear-cut distinctions between poetry and prose, such a prospect is both exciting and unsettling.

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散文诗与阿拉伯文学传统

摘要 散文诗，这种混合的、可疑的、矛盾的命题，引发了一些问题，要求对阿拉伯语中所有其他既定的诗歌形式进行更深入的审查，尤其是 qaṣīda 和阿拉伯语自由诗歌。散文诗不仅提出了“什么是诗？”的问题，而且更具颠覆性地促使我们追问：“什么是阿拉伯语的诗？” 这个问题与其说是定义，不如说是扩展和拒绝。在长期以来接受诗歌和散文之间非常明确区分的传统中，这样的前景既令人兴奋又令人不安。