Al Mustafa speaks to a crowd while waiting for a ship in a book of aphoristic poems of this type by the Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran (“jib-RAHN”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of poetry that, unlike verse poetry, forgoes line breaks for blocks of text written in sentences.
ANSWER: prose poetry [or prose poems]
[10e] That book of prose poems by Kahlil Gibran is titled for one of these people. Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses takes its name from a story about Muhammad, an Islamic one of these religious figures.
ANSWER: prophets [accept messengers; accept nabi or rasūl]
[10h] This author depicted an invasion of Lebanon in a prose poem set during Hiroshima Day titled Memory for Forgetfulness. This poet repeated the phrase “Write down! I am Arab!” in his poem “Identity Card.”
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
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