The Ramadan Sonnets

Best book of poems I’ve read in years by a contemporary and have had thepleasure of being lifted by, shot into the orbit of harmonious rapture grins andthe joyousness of countless YES, O, YES. The collection resonates and purifiesthe deep sweet water in the cells where the real self drinks. The resonatingbuilds stanza by stanza, poem after poem, informed by an American spiritualand mystical lineage from Transcendentalism to the Beats of the BeatitudeVision into as-yet-to-be identified and named Third Wave, holding in itsunnumbered beckoning hands the world‘s mystical poetry body. Moore’s spectacularcontribution to this present building surge arrives before his audiencewith a thorough immersion in Islam’s Sufi way. This is experience inspired intosong, not a complex geometry of imaginary gymnastics afloat in an alienatedmental life ...