The Prophet (Annotated)

The Prophet is a sequence of twenty-six prose-poems framed as the farewell discourse of Almustafa, a seer who, before departing the city of Orphalese, answers its people on love, marriage, work, freedom, sorrow, death, and other elemental concerns. Its style is aphoristic, biblical, and incantatory, blending Eastern and Western spiritual idioms with the Romantic tradition of visionary wisdom liter...