Publisher's Synopsis
" Wellversed and wellread in Sufi mysticism, Joris appears throughout these captivating meditations as a nomadizing poetscholar- a poeta doctus in the classical sense: whether it is the manners, or pockets of the desert, Baghdad bombings, or Hallaj' s set of stations that caught his eye (a poeta vates?) and fired up the engine of his writing, Joris- poeta faber- also always guides us back to the material flux of language that constitutes these meditations." - Peter Cockelbergh