The Beautiful / Palace Prayers (5th in the series of poetry books
from Misdaq) offers the most rhythmic, urgent and yet 'beautifully'
abstract assemblage of words thus far. As the call to walk away
from the material world and its enticements becomes ever more
solid, so does the calling towards some sort of 'path' become ever
more pronounced, and so do the words themselves seem to take on a
new magic. New shifts and subtle lights produce truly fresh angles,
supplying meanings that one oft-cannot be sure are intended or
unintended, and yet, are nonetheless felt somewhere real, primal.
To be sure, this is 'pure' poetry (with less of 'the poet'), all
water, all clear mirrors reflected at the sky or the Divine.
Fittingly then, we witness here a definite shift away from the more
dry wit and reportage journalism-style sometimes present in the
previous 4 books. Galactically serious, freshly spiritual, and yet
rooted in the honesty of the everyday streets (of Washington DC) at
the very same time. Cellular, biological and metaphysical worlds of
sheer SEARCHING, meet with hip-hop flows so undeniably present in
the rhythm of these poems that you might even find yourself bobbing
your head to a beat you think you hear. The genius is that you DO
hear it. This earnest, honest collection also includes (like its
predecessor 'Spilling Kingdoms') a document of poems written daily
during the month of Ramadan, as well as three remarkably unique and
experimental short stories, and finally, illustrations of 'The
Beautiful, ' in all of their forms- peppered throughout the
handsome, royal text.Extracts from the foreword by Christopher
Reiger: "No doubt, the author, laughing, singing, eyes wide and
sparkling, would appear mad to many of his fellows. This is to
their discredit. They have forgotten (or failed to learn) how to
look... As Douglas Thorpe writes, " love] demands of us a new way
of being in our old world." Religious mysticism is a love affair
with The All. It's not always easy but religious attunement can
turn each day, each hour, or each instant, into, "a new way of
being." Reading Yusuf's poetry, I'm reminded that every step is a
psalm, every directed gaze is a prayer."
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