Yusuf al-Khal
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yusuf al-Khal was a Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist, and publisher. He is considered the greatest exponent of avantgardist prose poetry as well one of the pioneers of Arabic surrealist poetry. With fellow poets Adonis and Ounsi el-Hajj, al-Khal founded the magazine Shi'r in Beirut in 1957, initiating a movement to modernize Arabic literature. His poetry has also been recognized in Near East poetry collections. He published many volumes of avant-garde poetry and translated Whitman, Eliot, Frost, and others.
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