num_pages: 128
description: A Bee From Divine Unity is Ben Ahmad Ali's first book of poetry. It is a journey through a labyrinth of rooms where he weaves together his experiences in New York City and other parts of the world as a series of lush and surreal landscapes that could lead from two lovers in a room on the Lower east of Manhattan to the golden gateway at the Palace Of 55 Windows in Bhaktapur, Nepal; from lovers who met on the 7 train going home to see the lunar eclipse to the funeral of his girlfriend who died on Santorini from meningitis. The work's content and craft is both rich in imagery, musicality and rhythm. The poems cover the widest territory you can imagine. The metaphors within the work are original and evocative; a car that drives through the Adirondaks on route 87 in fall is a fish making its way through the bright coral reef, satellites who watch and track all of our movements are silver angels gliding over the atmosphere, and our brain is a Minoan labyrinth where our cells are sacrificed to the Minotaur of time as we age. As you turn from page to page you are led into a catacomb of different rooms, strange and surreal, lush and filled with unexpected characters, animals, and even beings from other dimensions.
language: English
title: A BEE FROM DIVINE UNITY
titlecomplete: A BEE FROM DIVINE UNITY
publisher: GOLD ANGEL PRESS INC.