The Ramadan Sonnets By Daniel Moore. West Bethesda: A Jusoor Book-Kitab and San Francisco: City Lights, 125 pp.

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 ...