The Ramadan Sonnets

by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

        RAMADAN SONNETS, not always a spiritual meditation, nor often even what should be felt and achieved in the fast (the poems are striving for some reality of feeling and experience), these poems are an imaginatively inspired record of the month, its small epiphanies and grim endurances, heading out from its physical constraints to contemplate a vast panorama, or focusing in on particulars, those embryos of explosive meaning, to evoke the blessed month of Ramadan's intertwining flavors of asceticism and sensual gratitude, its palatable and palpable Light.

        One or more poems written each day of the thirty days of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, from experiential to Sufically surreal and symbolic, or, as Coleman Barks says: ??a unique and very tasty series of fasting poems!? Written in 1986, published in 1996 by Jusoor/City Lights Books, and a revised edition republished by The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005.

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