Description
CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL is Youssef Alaouis debut full-length poetry collection, which explores human relationships between individuals, cultures, races, and genders. He deftly utilizes archaic tones to formulate an artistic approach to metaphor in verse, creating images that appear wholly in the mind and not on the page. This volume consists of ten sections that explores Alaouis family and heritage, an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings. Blending surrealism, magical realism, and language alchemy, Alaoui explores the human mythos of love, poverty, politics, racism, and war. A few of the poems are written in French and Spanish, translated to English. Post-beat verse from the San Francisco Bay area and the Big-Sur, CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL touches the depth of the soul with poetry that is metaphorically luminous.
Chapter
Miles to Go Before I Sleep
It's Only the Wind, You Say
Critics of Mystery Marvel
Lost in Rhododendron Dells
"Dubble-O" Pronounced "OO"
Considering the Following Arrangement of Words
Smoke the Roach of the Day
Train Direct to Your Chest
When the Sky Swirls Stars That
Blood of Marat Boils in the Bathwater
Ramble Rumble, Voices of the Aftermath
Inviting a Friend to Supper
Valediction Forbidding Mourning
The Dread That Would Not Wait to Be Summoned
How the Sword Maiden Loved a Young Man
You and I Sipping Coff ee
Poem of the Tiny Power of Youth
Poema del Pequenisimo / Poder de la Juventud
Sacred and Profane, Faceless Jacks
Other Books by 2Leaf Press
Critics of Mystery Marvel
：Collected Poems
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