Bamakoola (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781774034415)

BAMAKOOLA is a monumental three-volume poetic odyssey chronicling a love rekindled after forty-two years of silence. Composed across seven years and 224 poems, this Double Trilogy traces the evolution of a bond that begins in memory, expands through digital intimacy, and culminates in a metaphysical union that transcends distance, time, and mortality.

Book I: Soulmeeting ignites the journey. When the speaker reunites with his first muse, Qi Hong, the encounter unleashes a torrent of memory, longing, and emotional rebirth. Poems move between Cultural Revolution youth, present-day Vancouver, and the shock of rediscovered affection. Through mathematics, cosmology, and intimate recollection, the poet charts the reawakening of a devotion thought long extinguished-what he calls "a record-breaking longitudinal study of the heart's capacity to regenerate."

Book II: Soulmating deepens the connection into a digital and spiritual union lived across hemispheres. Through WeChat calls, handwritten letters, dreams, and metaphysical imagination, the lovers build a shared virtual sanctuary where desire, philosophy, and devotion intertwine. Their intimacy becomes mythic and philosophical-rooted in quantum entanglement, yin-yang duality, and the metaphysics of longing. Dreams, vows, and emotional rituals sustain a relationship that defies geography, age, and circumstance.

Book III: Soulmelting completes the transformation. The lovers finally merge-body, mind, and spirit-into a single enduring reality. These poems confront aging, mortality, sensuality, and transcendence with clarity sharpened by decades of yearning. Their union becomes a metaphysical truth that outlives the body, culminating in Bamakoola, a private paradise "small as the screen of a cellphone, but much larger than the whole planet," where the lovers dwell beyond the constraints of the physical world.

Blending lyricism, philosophy, sensuality, and cultural memory, Bamakoola stands as a singular literary monument: a testament to the resilience of the heart, the persistence of memory, and the ways love can evolve beyond distance, time, and even death.