Sins of Algiers
The Vaudevillian Vox Populi II
A collection of poems on the spiritual and material town of Algiers
“This is a book of passion, self reflection and deep meditation. A moment of illumination, epiphany can we call it, or solemn discovery the the bitter truth, truth of an imprisoned soul in an endless pursuit of liberty. Take it to bed with you. Ponder in it alone or with another feverish rebellious heart"
Dr L. Zenadji
It is with humility really unassumed, it is with a sentiment even of awe that I offer to you this book of truths. Not for the truth that it abounds. But for the universal revelations that will follow the reader after his reading. Serving as a sequel for Sons of Algiers and its own tales of treachery, this book comes as an epiphany as we mute the populace’s hypocrisy and deliver ourselves from the curse of conformity. It teaches you to be one particle of whole and not the citizenry. That more things unite us than divide us in this town, and that we are the sons of Algiers and liberty.
This book speaks from the heart of the hearts to the heart of a million imprisoned soul under the banner of conformity. In this book we celebrate the art of the streets, the dreamers, musicians, poets of the ville of Algiers. Long shut and marginalized under the label of commercial art and conformity. This book is an hommage for you. In this universal view only, you and I wave the flag of our individual oneness. The individual awareness wallowing in the mud of the commanding society and mis-interpretation of a once bright doctrine. Those who felt alienated with their ideas and forlorn. This book speaks to you ! You are not alone nor separated from the whole. Shape your own town as I wrote mine with their sins.
In its second chapter as we journey in this epiphany, we enter the door of romance and love of the ville. We discover romantic poetry as we stroll in rues of Algiers. To share an analudian waltz with a snow-white muse of algiers in a nyctophilian night. While the envious gazes of the crowd scream “Blasphemy !”. The power of love breaks any barriers, it is brighter than the darkness of the crowd. As the novelist had decided to share for us a glimpse of his mysterious and private life. He breaks the social gossips and show us what is it like for a poet to fall in love.
To be enlightened is to be free from the curse of conformity, and to get as close as possible to divinity and spread that light on mankind under the law of love. This book englobes the spirituality that lies behind the human error and the mystical town of Algiers. With lots of sufi symbolism and spiritual enigmas. It also renders hommage to our Algerian Legacy with several references from the Andalusian Nuba music and poetry.
This book celebrates the mystical side of the town as we stroll in various literary dimensions through a literary psychedelic experience or a consicous mind. Words become abstract as we reach the peak of the trip that the third chapter of the soul displays. As we communicate with Mother Algiers while she tries to pave for us the way towards divinity.
We then discover the universal love that delivers us from conformity and teaches us to become one of the whole and not the citiznery, to free our minds from the ego's illusion and the conformity of the crowd.
What comes after the human error is the acknowledgment of its fallacy then a pursuit for a solution as we get close to God and divinity. The lonlier the mind is, the closer is god. And as in darkness is the light. This book advocates a new perception, a new romantic sense of life, to bring about a turning point in the deepest seat of consciousness. A rhapsodic, transcendent bohemian consciousness can be achieved, Through the I or through the We. After the rascality, romance and divinity. This trilogy will be concluded victoriously, The Seeds of Algiers will be the last encore under the banner of "Light – Honour – Duty. "
The poems of this books were written with the spirit of the postmodern french and Victorian poets: Leo ferré, Saez, Walt Withman, Jean-roger Caussimon, James Joyce, Bertrand Cantat (Noir désir).
The structure and progress of the poems were shaped in respect to The Philosophy of Composition and The Unity of Effect by Edgar allan Poe.
It is only as an Epiphany (literary experience) that I want this book to be judged, criticized, reviewed.
This book wouldn't have been completed without the participation of several algerian artists that I met on the social medias. A hovel for the misunderstood and yet talented artists. I'd like to offer my most august warm gratitudes to :
Farouk Toumi and Tinhinene mezghiche for the magnificient cover photographs
Dr. Zenadji my teacher of literary theories for the attractive and poetic preface.
Meriem Cherifi my fellow hermetic scholar for her contribtuion in the esoteric foundation of the Mother Algiers entity and the conceptual illustration of the first page.
Amina Benbouréche a well-lauded painter and graphist that I met in her own art expository in 2016 for the trippy and mesmerizing illustrations.
D. Merouane A.Malik For their contribution in the studies of the psychedelic and spiritual revelations carefully mentioned in the poems, and potentially the theology and pantheism of the book.
And my dear family and artist brother for their warm nest and open heart.
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