Title: It’s All About Love
Author: Hosain Mosavat
Publisher: XlibrisUS
ISBN: 978-1796017755
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 320
Reviewed by: Lisa Brown-Gilbert
Pacific Book Review
With its pages imbued with scattered images of a beautiful rose, the most notable symbol of love, Hosain Mosavat’s It’s All About Love enamors readers with a plenitude of moving poems that speak not only of love and it’s many splendors, but also offers an intimate view into an artistic heart grown and fueled by love.
Initially, Author Mosavat thoughtfully introduces himself through a brief look into his background and what event propelled him on his journey to understanding love. After being told by a Darvish (a spiritual aspirant in Iranian culture) that “It’s all about Love” the author explains how he actually set out to disprove the Darvish’s statement, however eventually found it to be the truth of life, and through his poetry, he deeply and resoundingly reflects that very sentiment, that this journey through life that we all are on, is truly…all about love.
This humbling homage to love contains a bounty of emotionally reflective works, each offering a differing perspective into that all-powerful sentiment of love. Altogether, author Hosain Mosavat artfully expresses his take on the bounds of love with his creative compositions, each in varying lengths and tone, with some of the shorter ones reading like brief, lyrical life lessons.
Before the actual body of poetry starts, author Mosavat treats readers to a preview with two loving, sentimental verses one dedicated by author Mosavat to his wife and the other also a touching verse dedicated by his wife to him. What follows is an integrally spiritual journey through love, which spans a variety of subject matter and emotions, even loneliness. Starting with several poems dedicated to the expression of love through the life of a Darvish/Sufi. Subsequently, he additionally, explores subjects like; motherly love with a poem I found to be particularly touching, The First Person. While all his poems are wonderfully deep and evocative, there are some that also truly touched me, just to name a few; Let Me Teach You How to Fly, You Will Not Bring Me a Storm, Nothing in my Life, Hero, If You Have to Steal, and Never Walk Away.
Finally, in its entirety, I found It’s All About Love to be an absolutely stimulating compendium of fascinating and expressive poems, which I enjoyed reading. My only qualm with this book is that the titles of many poems do not appear over them, making it difficult to discern the title of the poem unless searched for in the table of contents. Otherwise, this wonderfully creative work turned out to be a worthy read and I do recommend it to poetry lovers.
