John Agard Playing the Ghost of Maimonides (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Playing the Ghost of MaimonidesCondition: NewEAN: 9781780373096ISBN: 9781780373096Publisher: Bloodaxe Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/23/2016Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: John AgardLanguage: EnglishDescription: John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new collection, he puts on the mask of Moses Maimonides (aka the Rambam), the Medieval Jewish rabbi and physician who wrote his Guide of the Perplexed in Arabic at a time when Judaism, Islam and Christianity cross-fertilised each other in Moorish Spain. Now the ghost of Maimonides returns to the contemporary world, no less perplexed, and trailed by the figure of the Jester, whose wise fool musings shadow Maimonides' discourses on a range of subjects from sectarian fanaticism to God's incorporeal lack of taste buds. In Playing the Ghost of Maimonides, the rabbinical, the parabolical, the nonsensical, are symphonically interwoven in a thought-provoking romp of metaphysical shapeshifting that resonates with the current climate of extremism.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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