A poetic work by Moroccan poet Mohammed Bennis that explores love through the body, memory, time, and poetry. With a foreword by Adonis and an afterword by Bernard Noël.
Back-Cover Text:
Here, in your hands, is a new necklace to place beside The Ring of the Dove. Within it, the immediacy of feeling and the enduring nature of love come together. The intoxication of the body and the grace of love exist in harmony. This is an all-embracing book that does not bid farewell to the past, but carries it into the present and anticipates the future in order to make it part of the moment we inhabit… The Book of Love seems to carry us from the crest of the wave into the ocean of the body.
—Adonis
In love, you submit and suffer
In love, you die time and again, and yield
In love, you obey
In love, all prohibitions lose their force:
Misery
Abandonment
And sin
In love there are no alliances
Nor any choices
Love is an annihilating act
So surrender to the hour of conquest
Take a path that leads you
To your own disappearance