Playing the Ghost of Maimonides

by John Agard

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new collection, he puts on the mask of Moses Maimonides (aka the Rambam), the Medieval Jewish rabbi and physician who wrote his Guide of the Perplexed in Arabic at a time when Judaism, Islam and Christianity cross-fertilised each other in Moorish Spain. Now the ghost of Maimonides returns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780373090
• ISBN13: 9781780373096
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"