Böcker av Youssef Alaoui

The Bioptic Review was started out of a vision to create liaisons between insular poetry circles, and to bridge ideological divides between writers of the English, French and Spanish languages, with the hope to circulate ideas between the literary spaces that stretch from North America to Central and South America, and across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, most notably to Paris, France where the majority of the Bioptic Review poets, artists, and writers are situated.La Revista Bioptica nació de una visión de unir círculos de poesía aislados y hacer puentes entre divisiones ideológicas entre escritores en las lenguas de inglés, de francés, y de castellana, con la esperanza de hacer circular ideas entre los espacios literarios que se extienden de América del Norte hasta Centroamérica y América del Sur y a través del Océano Atlántico hasta Europa, principalmente en París, Francia donde la mayoría de las poetas, artistas, y escritores viven.La Revue Bioptique est née d'une vision de construire des liens entre des cercles de poésie insulaires et de faire des ponts entre les divisions idéologiques des écrivains anglophones, francophones, et hispanophones, avec l'espoir de faire passer des idées entre les espaces littéraires qui vont de l'Amérique du nord à l'Amérique centrale et à l'Amérique du Sud, et à travers l'Océan Atlantique jusqu'à l'Europe, notamment à Paris, France où la majorité des poètes, artistes, et écrivains de la Revue Bioptique vivent.

CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL is Youssef Alaoui's debut full-length poetry collection, which explores human relationships between individuals, cultures, races, and genders. He deftly utilizes archaic tones to formulate an artistic approach to metaphor in verse, creating images that appear wholly in the mind and not on the page. This volume consists of ten sections that explores Alaoui's family and heritage, an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings. Blending surrealism, magical realism, and language alchemy, Alaoui explores the human mythos of love, poverty, politics, racism, and war. A few of the poems are written in French and Spanish, translated to English. Post-beat verse from the San Francisco Bay area and the Big-Sur, CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL touches the depth of the soul with poetry that is metaphorically luminous.