This poet's most ambitious work is a three-volume epic whose speaker, employing the poet (*) al-Mutannabi as a guide, travels throughout the sixth- to ninth- century Arab world, titled simply The Book, or Al Kitab.
This author declares that the 21st century belongs to cats and dogs, in a poem which describes carts full of them floating on the street toward Walt Whitman. This author wrote that "I toy with my nation. I see its future glimpsed through the eyelashes of an ostrich," in one of the prose "Psalms" found in his best-known book. This author described the Statue of Liberty holding up a rag called "freedom" with one hand, and "choking a child named Earth" with the other, in his poem "A Grave for New York." A book by this author examines the parallels between Surrealism and Sufism. This poet's most ambitious work is a three-volume epic whose speaker, employing the poet (*) al-Mutannabi as a guide, travels throughout the sixth- to ninth- century Arab world, titled simply The Book, or Al Kitab. This author adopts the guise of a different medieval Arab poet in his best-known collection. For 10 points, name this author of the Songs of Mihyar the Damascene, a dissident Syrian poet with a Greek mythological pseudonym.
This author declares that the 21st century belongs to cats and dogs, in a poem which describes carts full of them floating on the street toward Walt Whitman.
Adonis [or Adunis; or Ali Ahmad Said Esber]