The Ramadan Sonnets

Abstract

Best book of poems I’ve read in years by a contemporary and have had the pleasure of being lifted by, shot into the orbit of harmonious rapture grins and the joyousness of countless YES, O, YES. The collection resonates and purifies the deep sweet water in the cells where the real self drinks. The resonating builds stanza by stanza, poem after poem, informed by an American spiritual and mystical lineage from Transcendentalism to the Beats of the Beatitude Vision into as-yet-to-be identified and named Third Wave, holding in its unnumbered beckoning hands the world‘s mystical poetry body. Moore’s spectacular contribution to this present building surge arrives before his audience with a thorough immersion in Islam’s Sufi way. This is experience inspired into song, not a complex geometry of imaginary gymnastics afloat in an alienated mental life ...