April 11, 2022

Sultan Ezi is the Lord of the Cup

The cover of 'Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis' has on it a peacock's feather and a black and white photo of three turbaned men standing outside a Yezidi shrine in Lalish, Kurdistan      

In 2017, I made a selection of poems by the caliph Yazid ibn Mu‘awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, and prepared "trots" of them for Peter Lamborn Wilson to versify in his book on the Yezidi religion. That book is now available from Inner Traditions (Rochester, VT), and [UPDATED MAY 23] I'm consoled that Peter lived to see it. Thanks to all who made it possible, especially Charles Stein, Renée Heitman, and Raymond Foye.