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A poem addressing this city remarks, “The geography of my body changes. / The cells of my blood become green. / My alphabet is green.” “Poems become diaphanous (“dye-AFF-uh-nuss”)” in this city in a poem titled for its “Collar of the Dove” that provides the title of the collection The Butterfly’s (-5[1])Burden. (-5[1])The erotic (-5[1])collection Childhood of a Breast is by a poet from this city who wrote of its “Jasmine Scent,” (10[1])Nizar Qabbani. A modernist 1963 collection (10[1])titled for this city includes “The Wound” in its section “The Sorcerer of Dust,” (0[1]-5[1])envisions a “New Noah,” and opens each section with a prose “Psalm.” An imaginary king of this capital city was created by a poet from here who called it “something / of the wind” in the poem “A Grave for New York.” (10[2]-5[3])For 10 points, (10[2]0[1]-5[2])the collection Songs of Mihyar (10[1])depicts (-5[1])what city, the capital of the home country of the poet Adunis? (-5[1])■END■ (10[10]0[8])

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