A Place of Forgetfulness

Overview

In his spiritual poetry in the tradition of the mystic, of Sufism, Mohammed Ibrahim Yaghob writes of his yearning for the sublime in both divine and human love. Suffering from a sense of preternatural exile, the poet contemplates the mystery of love, convinced that it is the pursuit of communion, confluence with love or sense of total presence, that gives life meaning and not the mere fact of love’s loss or his exilic residence on Earth.

Author Biography

Muhammad Ibrahim Yaghob is a Saudi poet and has published a number of poetry collections including: Awe of the Shadow, Hymns of Solitude, It's Not What You Think, Place of Oblivion and Seventh Edge. He has won a great many poetry awards including Al-Thubaiti Award for Poetry Creativity (2015) and the Okaz Poet Award (2019).