Psalmen

For a long time, Said, who seeks and grapples with an unconventional and non-confessional spirituality, has been writing psalms. The biblical psalms, which continue to shape spiritual poetry to this day, have their roots in ancient Near Eastern literature, and who could feel more called to take up this ancient form of religious song and prayer in a contemporary way and fill it with new meaning than Said, whose lyrical language is always nourished by the Persian tradition? Nothing in his psalms is taken for granted, not even the relationship with the invoked God; everything is radically open and new. Said's psalms leave no one indifferent, and they do not shy away from anything: not the catastrophes and conflicts of history, not the language of the present, not the struggles of everyday life, not the desire, the longing, or the fear of death. After the end of the great utopias, a world.