The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazalsranges across time and place in visiting personal aswell as historical and even imagined experience. Asan abecedarian was once used to teach the basics ofa thing—say, to recognize an alphabet—Gibson,who has labelled his collection a “scrambledabecedarian,” suggests that all meaning arises outof disorder. However, it is from this disorder thatthe varied subjects of the poems are shaped into asignificance.