Kazim Ali, Author . Alice James $14.95 (67p) ISBN 978-1-882295-53-1
Moving between biblical and Qur'anic stories, sections of this debut explore questions of comparative faith: "Why not a religion of water in a time of great fires?" Painterly minimalism, open-field technique and Near Eastern traditions...
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Kazim Ali, Author . BOA Editions $16 (78p) ISBN 978-1-934414-04-0
Ali’s second collection continues the project he began in his debut, The Far Mosque
(2005). Through these associative and sometimes disjunctive lyrics, Ali explores Eastern religions—Islam, Hinduism—as well as his relationship...
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Kazim Ali, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $22.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6916-5
“What do I really want to share with people? Not of my methods but of myself?” asks Ali in his third collection, a captivating song of himself that passionately excavates the interdependence between geography and identity. Ali, who is...
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Kazim Ali. Tupelo (www.tupelopress.org), $19.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-932195-94-1
Poet, essayist, and creative writing teacher Ali (Bright Felon) adds a postmodern twist to the venerable tradition of spiritual journals with this collection of public blog posts and intimate reflections about his experiences fasting for Ramadan,...
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Kazim Ali. Wesleyan, $22 (88p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7357-5
The title of Ali’s fourth collection signals two of the volume’s most salient tasks. First is wordplay: Ali moves far beyond wit, operating to reveal and make use of the latent meanings embedded within words and sounds. In passages such as “Body a...
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Kazim Ali. Tupelo, $16.95 trade paper (115p) ISBN 978-1-936797-99-8
Poet Ali (The Far Mosque) combines smatterings of verse with memoir-tinged prose in an exploration of our spiritual and physical connections, or lack thereof, to the Earth and one another. He transforms readers into his companions on his travels...
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Kazim Ali. Wesleyan Univ., $15.95 trade paper (98p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7762-7
Ali (Sky Ward) focuses on questions beyond human knowledge in his fourth collection, one complicated by the metaphysical and embodied intersections of being queer, brown, and Muslim. “Someone always asks me ‘where are you from’/ And I want to say a...
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Kazim Ali. Milkweed, $24 (200p) ISBN 978-1-57131-382-9
Poet Ali (The Voice of Sheila Chandra) chronicles his return to the small Canadian town he lived in during early childhood in this layered memoir. On an especially cold winter night, Ali writes, he began reflecting on memories of his early childhood
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Kazim Ali. BOA Editions, $23 trade paper (294p) ISBN 978-1-960145-35-2
Ali (Indian Winter), a literature professor at the University of California–San Diego, offers a perceptive analysis of the major themes and literary techniques found in the oeuvre of National Book Award–winning poet Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)....
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Kazim Ali. Wesleyan Univ., $35 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8195-0070-0
Gathering selections from eight previous books, including The Voice of Sheila Chandra, this dazzling retrospective showcases Ali’s multifaceted voice in poems of lyric daring. Ali’s linguistic interests are seemingly infinite—from the Vedas to the...
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