All the Stars Aflame

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All the Stars Aflame</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Malik Abduh journeys to various places in our history - shapeshifting listening bearing witness and returning to the present to offer us impressions portraits the local evidence of rage and love. This debut collection is more than a decade in the making from a poet who composes with impressive scholarly attention while remaining delighted in language and scene-making. Abduh's craft is spiritually attuned to a feverish love of justice. He points us to the patterns of the past which make a kind of music so that all the fragments of these stories make a song-and that song burns with American history. I'm thrilled to finally see these poems in the world. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>                                                                      - Patrick Rosal </span></p><p><br></p>