The Fire Eater's Lunchbreak / Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615236285)

THE FIRE EATER'S LUNCHBREAK: What does happen when we stop swallowing the flame, whatever it might be? This world, our own drudgery, our passions, low or high, that locus of our experience we call "I" - and take a break? There's a Sufi text by Shaykh ibn 'Ata Illah whose title I've always loved: "The Giving Up of the Management of Your Affairs." Neat trick! But somehow that's also the key to the present title, and God willing to something of the poems this book contains. Poem: His High Command/and an ant's vibrating antenna//The horrors of war/and a newborn's uncurling fingers//Flash floods/and a dry riverbed gurgling//The heart alone/and entire humanity's pulse beat

Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
ISBN-10: 0615236286
ISBN-13: 9780615236285
Publisher: Ecstatic Exchange / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2008
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d