Between A and Z: Poems

Between  A and Z is an epic collection—an autobiography only a poet living a life of such vast dimensions could compose, a poet of great maturity who combines a deep sensitivity for the details—including the beauties and the horrors—of his many landscapes, at once intellectual, spiritual, and sensual, in his courageous explorations to find “the clue to the riddle of immortality.”   Equally rich with the complexities of his Iranian childhood and ancestry as well as being fully alert to the present tense of his Texan home and family, in tones that shift confidently from pastoral to historic to mythic to political invective, reflecting journeys from the Middle East to America to Africa to realms of myth—a rare and necessary work, expansive in its geographic, religious, scientific, and literary embrace—Mo Saidi’s poetry truly reflects the complete experience of what it means to be alive in the 21st century.

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Philip Terman

Professor of English, Clarion University: www.clarion.edu

Co-Director: Chautauqua Writers' Festival: http://writers.ciweb.org/writers-festival/