Zodiac of echoes / Khaled Mattawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattawa, Khaled.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

110 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Keene, NY : Ausable Press, 2003.

Summary:

In a note at the end of this collection, Mattawa explains the title through the North African scholar, Ibn Shaqloufʹs, version of the astrological systems, saying that all prayers go up to the sun but that some "become detached" and then are free to "spin about the zodiac filling it with their echoes." Mattawaʹs collection is divided into 5 sections, which is also explained in the note: 5 planets, 5 kinds of prayer, 5 times of prayer per day. It all starts fits together even tighter than seems possible on first reading. The second section, "Vicinity (A Sequence)" redefines all that "relationship" can be: smells, sounds, tastes that force you into this contract you didnʹt even know you were making. Youʹre in Cairo, Cleveland, Washington, and Texas. Itʹs not enough to let these things and these places roam around and bump into one another in your mind ... the connections are deeper than roots or rivers or religion. Mattawa makes your mind throb with his wisdom and his vast concept of the sacred. Heʹs also not afraid to hold up a dirty picture, or even ... a mirror. Mattawa puts the gems right in the filth, where they always live, The city growls, regurgitating its beliefs. -- From http://bookpunchreviews.wordpress.com (Nov. 20, 2012.).

Contents:

Echo & Elixir 1

The Road from Biloxi

Echo & Elixir 2

Rain Song

Echo & Elixir 3

For Many Years I've Been Prohibited from Mentioning the Moon

The Wind

Vicinity (A sequence)

Echo & Elixir 4

Home Front

Cricket Mountain

Echo & Elixir 5

Genealogy of Fire

Echo & Elixir 6

Selima

On Apples & Shepherds

Tuned

Echo & Elixir 7

At the Columbus Zoo with Goethe in Pocket

Nocturnes on Evolution & Catastrophe

Emerson Revisitation

Dark Anthem.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781931337168

1931337047

9781931337045

1931337063

9781931337069

1931337160

OCLC:

52509435

Publisher Number:

99969657374