These poems wander across an impressive range of physical and emotional landscapes, landscapes of memory and time. Saidi is a wise guide." —Jim Daniels, author, Birth Marks "Between A and Z is an autobiographical collection only a poet living a life of vast dimensions could compose, a poet of great maturity who combines a deep sensitivity for the ... Read moredetails of his many landscapes, at once intellectual, spiritual, and sensual, in his courageous explorations to find 'the clue to the riddle of immortality.' Equally rich with the complexities of his Iranian childhood and ancestry as well as being fully alert to the present tense of his Texan home and family, in tones that shift confidently from pastoral to historic to mythic to political invective, this is a rare and necessary work, expansive in its geographic, religious, scientific, and literary embrace." —Philip Terman, author, The Torah Garden and Rabbis of the Air "Mo H Saidi's poems and prose are unique. Having had the privilege of reading his work as it has evolved, I have come to admire greatly the originality of his voice and the natural ability he has to tell a story. The talent to write well is fairly common, but the instinct to tell a story—story talent—is rare. Mo, in poems and prose, shows the latter in spades." —Abraham Verghese, author, Cutting for Stone Show Less