Blood-Letting is a compilation of one hundred and twenty-one original, unpublished, two-lined poems with each poem printed on one side of a 5X3 page. While the entire book is a mere 750 words, it is written and designed for sporadic and meditative re-readings by a contemporary audience trained on sound bytes and tweets. The collection draws on the idiom, imagery, and mood of thirteenth century devotional Sufi poetry (Rumi, Khusro, Hafez), the 19th century Urdu ghazal (Ghalib, Mir, Momin), and mid-twentieth century American confessional poetry. It includes found poetry from dive bar bathrooms, as well as references from the Quran. The format of the book, designed to look, feel, and weigh like a brick or block of poetry, lends itself to be flipped through for chance encounters with the individual poems. The total number of poems (hundred and twenty one) is eleven squared; eleven is a sacred number in Sufi Islam. These selections of Blood-Letting appear on bark and body.

Blood-Letting is a compilation of one hundred and twenty-one original, unpublished, two-lined poems with each poem printed on one side of a 5X3 page. While the entire book is a mere 750 words, it is written and designed for sporadic and meditative re-readings by a contemporary audience trained on sound bytes and tweets. The collection draws on the idiom, imagery, and mood of thirteenth century devotional Sufi poetry (Rumi, Khusro, Hafez), the 19th century Urdu ghazal (Ghalib, Mir, Momin), and mid-twentieth century American confessional poetry. It includes found poetry from dive bar bathrooms, as well as references from the Quran. The format of the book, designed to look, feel, and weigh like a brick or block of poetry, lends itself to be flipped through for chance encounters with the individual poems. The total number of poems (hundred and twenty one) is eleven squared; eleven is a sacred number in Sufi Islam. These selections of Blood-Letting appear on bark and body.

Blood-Letting is a compilation of one hundred and twenty-one original, unpublished, two-lined poems with each poem printed on one side of a 5X3 page. While the entire book is a mere 750 words, it is written and designed for sporadic and meditative re-readings by a contemporary audience trained on sound bytes and tweets. The collection draws on the idiom, imagery, and mood of thirteenth century devotional Sufi poetry (Rumi, Khusro, Hafez), the 19th century Urdu ghazal (Ghalib, Mir, Momin), and mid-twentieth century American confessional poetry. It includes found poetry from dive bar bathrooms, as well as references from the Quran. The format of the book, designed to look, feel, and weigh like a brick or block of poetry, lends itself to be flipped through for chance encounters with the individual poems. The total number of poems (hundred and twenty one) is eleven squared; eleven is a sacred number in Sufi Islam. These selections of Blood-Letting appear on bark and body.

Blood-Letting is a compilation of one hundred and twenty-one original, unpublished, two-lined poems with each poem printed on one side of a 5X3 page. While the entire book is a mere 750 words, it is written and designed for sporadic and meditative re-readings by a contemporary audience trained on sound bytes and tweets. The collection draws on the idiom, imagery, and mood of thirteenth century devotional Sufi poetry (Rumi, Khusro, Hafez), the 19th century Urdu ghazal (Ghalib, Mir, Momin), and mid-twentieth century American confessional poetry. It includes found poetry from dive bar bathrooms, as well as references from the Quran. The format of the book, designed to look, feel, and weigh like a brick or block of poetry, lends itself to be flipped through for chance encounters with the individual poems. The total number of poems (hundred and twenty one) is eleven squared; eleven is a sacred number in Sufi Islam. These selections of Blood-Letting appear on bark and body.

Blood-Letting is a compilation of one hundred and twenty-one original, unpublished, two-lined poems with each poem printed on one side of a 5X3 page. While the entire book is a mere 750 words, it is written and designed for sporadic and meditative re-readings by a contemporary audience trained on sound bytes and tweets. The collection draws on the idiom, imagery, and mood of thirteenth century devotional Sufi poetry (Rumi, Khusro, Hafez), the 19th century Urdu ghazal (Ghalib, Mir, Momin), and mid-twentieth century American confessional poetry. It includes found poetry from dive bar bathrooms, as well as references from the Quran. The format of the book, designed to look, feel, and weigh like a brick or block of poetry, lends itself to be flipped through for chance encounters with the individual poems. The total number of poems (hundred and twenty one) is eleven squared; eleven is a sacred number in Sufi Islam. These selections of Blood-Letting appear on bark and body.

Blood-Letting is a compilation of one hundred and twenty-one original, unpublished, two-lined poems with each poem printed on one side of a 5X3 page. While the entire book is a mere 750 words, it is written and designed for sporadic and meditative re-readings by a contemporary audience trained on sound bytes and tweets. The collection draws on the idiom, imagery, and mood of thirteenth century devotional Sufi poetry (Rumi, Khusro, Hafez), the 19th century Urdu ghazal (Ghalib, Mir, Momin), and mid-twentieth century American confessional poetry. It includes found poetry from dive bar bathrooms, as well as references from the Quran. The format of the book, designed to look, feel, and weigh like a brick or block of poetry, lends itself to be flipped through for chance encounters with the individual poems. The total number of poems (hundred and twenty one) is eleven squared; eleven is a sacred number in Sufi Islam. These selections of Blood-Letting appear on bark and body.