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New York University; University at Albany.
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(The Far Mosque) Author: Kazim Ali published on (October, 2005)
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The Far Mosque
( These gently fragmented narrative lyrics pursue enlight...)
These gently fragmented narrative lyrics pursue enlightenment in long, elegant yet plain-spoken, dark yet ecstatic lines. Ali travels by water and by night, seeking the Far Mosque and its overarching paradox: that when God and Self are one, an ascent into Heaven is a voyage within.
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The Fortieth Day (American Poets Continuum)
( From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symboli...)
From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or stormbeaten passenger knows there is no state “after,” but finally accepts the present state as a permanent one. In The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali follows the fractured narratives and moving lyrics of his debut collection, The Far Mosque, with a deeply spiritual and meditative book exploring the rhetoric of prayer. Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and raised in an Islamic household. He holds degrees from the University at Albany and New York University. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Sky Ward (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry (2014) Drunk ...)
Winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry (2014) Drunk on the sun and the sea, Kazim Ali’s new poems swoop linguistically but ground themselves vividly in the daily and real. Both imprisoned by endlessness and dependent on it for nurturing and care, in Sky Ward Ali goes further than ever before in sounding out the spaces between music and silence, between sky and ocean, between human and eternal. “Daily I wish stitched here to live,” moans his Prometheus, wondering what release from familiar bondage might actually portend. “So long liberation,” his Icarus sings as he plummets from the sky with desperation and grace, ready to unfeather and plunge into the everything-new. Whether in the extended poem-prayer to Alice Coltrane or in the “deleted scenes” and “alternate endings” to his critically acclaimed volume Bright Felon, or in the spirit-infused and multi-faceted lyrics he has become known for, Ali once again reinvents possibilities for the personal lyric and narrative.
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Orange Alert: essays on poetry, art, and the architecture of silence (Poets on Poetry)
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"Orange Alert is a poetic and yogic salvo across the bows of our defensive imperial posturing. Kazim Ali's essays leap deftly from homages to avant-garde artists (Yoko Ono, Agnes Martin, John Cage) to awestruck meditations on ancient architecture, from analyses of poets (Jane Cooper, Agha Shahid Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Lucille Clifton) to twitter aphorisms. Orange Alert is a revelation, a salve, an invitation to breathe again." ---Philip Metres, Associate Professor, Department of English, John Carroll University "With their delicacy of attention and bold range of subjects, Kazim Ali's essays hold many quiet surprises. In each art he searches for insight and craft---the virtues of his own patient writing." ---Susan Stewart, Chancellor, Academy of American Poets; and Professor, Princeton University "Kazim Ali's essays, like his poems, are alive with curiosity and humanity. . . . Orange Alert makes a compelling case for the necessity of poetry on a planet wracked by war and devastation." ---Timothy Yu, Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. Whether he is discussing the way cell phones have altered physical intimacy and introduced new verb forms, or the way Emily Dickinson's mysteries are more clearly revealed in French translation, Kazim Ali is at once clear and complex, rigorous and charming, accessible and demanding. In Orange Alert, Ali discusses poets including Agha Shahid Ali, Jane Cooper, Bhanu Kapil, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, and Samuel Beckett. He considers painters Agnes Martin and Piet Mondrian, musicians Alice Coltrane and Yoko Ono, and philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Jean Baudrillard. Ali links the poetic endeavor to such diverse texts as Moby-Dick, Battlestar Galactica, and Marilyn Buck's prison journals. Ali discusses contemporary poetry in relation to other art forms and to contemporary television; film; and electronic media, including the Internet, YouTube, and Facebook. He shines a light on the intersections between cultures in these essays on the craft of poetry, offering a hand to poets either geographically or metaphorically outside the mainstream of Western culture. Kazim Ali is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque and The Fortieth Day; two novels, Quinn's Passage and The Disappearance of Seth; and a memoir, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. He has been a regular columnist for American Poetry Review.
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Kazim Ali
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His most recent books are and Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). His poetry and essays have been featured in many literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, West Branch and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2007. In 2003, he co-founded the independent press Nightboat Books, and served as its publisher from 2004 to 2007, and currently serves as a founding editors
Ali is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.
Previously, he taught in the Liberal Arts Department of The Culinary Institute of America, at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and at Monroe College. He was born in the United Kingdom to parents of Indian descent, and raised in Canada and the United States.
Kazim Ali received a Bachelor of Arts and an Master of Arts in English Literature from the University at Albany, and an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. 2014 Best Translated Book Award, Poetry, one of two runners-up for The Oasis of Now by Sohrab Sepehri, translated from the Persian by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati.
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The Fortieth Day (American Poets Continuum)
( From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symboli...)
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Sky Ward (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry (2014) Drunk ...)
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The Far Mosque
( These gently fragmented narrative lyrics pursue enlight...)
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Orange Alert: essays on poetry, art, and the architecture of silence (Poets on Poetry)
( "Orange Alert is a poetic and yogic salvo across the bo...)
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(The Far Mosque) Author: Kazim Ali published on (October, 2005)
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The Fortieth Day (American Poets Continuum)
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Individual Excellence Award; Best Translated Book Award
The Best Translated Book Award is an American literary award that recognizes the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction.The Best Translated Book Award is an American literary award that recognizes the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction.