By Amy Gerstler
A awesome new assortment from an award-winning poet
Amy Gerstler has received approval for sly, refined, and subversive poems that locate which means in unforeseen locations. The name of her new assortment, Scattered at Sea, conjures up notions of dispersion, diaspora, sowing one's wild oats, having one's brain multiplied or blown, wasting one's wits, and mortality. employing dramatic monologue, elegy, humor, and university, those poems discover hedonism, gender, ancestry, reincarnation, bereavement, and the character of prayer. Groping for an inclusive, ingenious, postmodern spirituality, they draw from an array of resources, together with the philosophy of the traditional Stoics, diagnostic checks for Alzheimer's affliction, Nineteen Fifties recipes, the Babylonian Talmud, and Walter Benjamin's writing on his drug reviews.
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With the important discovery of a cheap way to manufacture paper, prose writing also became solidly established as a literary medium. Meanwhile the development of all aspects of Islam – encouraged if not actively pursued by the ‘Abbasid rulers – saw the creation of the two Sahihs (collections of Islamic tradition) known as Hadith (the authenticated accounts of the words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad), which are second only to the Qur’an in historical importance for Muslims. These were later supplemented by another four Sahihs, to make six in all.
In Arabia itself the growth of urban communities and the accompanying influx of foreigners brought with it an almost equal threat to the language; but the classicists and philologists waged a determined campaign to counter this trend. Their success was due above all to the publication of the Qur’an as the unimpeachable source of divine teachings, written – as it was revealed – in Arabic. When the Caliphate passed to the Umayyad of Damascus, the shift of geographical focus brought with it a host of new attitudes and practices – not least in the field of literature.
During the decade that followed, which is the first decade of the Islamic calendar, the whole of Arabia was converted to Islam under the inspired and undisputed leadership of the Prophet Muhammad, the “Messenger of God”. 40 The Prophet died in 632 AD at the age of sixty-two and was succeeded by a series of his companions who took the title of Caliph (Khalifah), which means successor. The first of these was Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq (632–634 AD), the Prophet’s father-in-law, followed by `Umar ibn al-Khattāb (634–644 AD), ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān (644–656 AD) and ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (656–661 AD) in turn.