John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the
past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn
all our expectations. In this new collection, he puts on the mask
of Moses Maimonides (aka the Rambam), the Medieval Jewish rabbi and
physician who wrote his Guide of the Perplexed in Arabic at a time
when Judaism, Islam and Christianity cross-fertilised each other in
Moorish Spain. Now the ghost of Maimonides returns to the
contemporary world, no less perplexed, and trailed by the figure of
the Jester, whose wise fool musings shadow Maimonides' discourses
on a range of subjects from sectarian fanaticism to God's
incorporeal lack of taste buds. In Playing the Ghost of Maimonides,
the rabbinical, the parabolical, the nonsensical, are symphonically
interwoven in a thought-provoking romp of metaphysical
shapeshifting that resonates with the current climate of extremism.
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