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Kazim Ali
Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story
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Ananda Devi,Kazim Ali
‘If I had only one word to define this book, it would be aliveness-a synonym, plausibly, in Ananda Devi’s idiolect, for freedom. Everything-from the Night in the title, to skin…
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Kazim Ali’s wildly inventive novel The Secret Room asks: how does one create a life of meaning in the face of loneliness and alienation from one’s own family, culture or…
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Melding scholarship with artistic reflection, Anais Nin: An Unprofessional Study guides readers through the movements and architectures of Nin’s writing. This dense, melodic book combines critical essays with concepts for…
An examination of the lingering effects of a hydroelectric power station on Pimicikamak sovereign territory in Manitoba, Canada –
Reading Ali is an act of redemption … both a challenge and a balm. -THE RUMPUS
Five New Yorkers’ stories in the aftermath of 9/11–grim but gorgeous, dangerously hopeful, unforgettably believable.
Ali’s sixth collection analyzes the slippery, intangible, and transient nature of existence.
Through interconnected short stories that span the genres of young adult, speculative fiction, poetic prose, romance, erotica, and suspense, Kazim Ali explores the awakening of longing and lust against the…
An exciting younger poet explores the rhetoric of prayer and the dizzying possibilities of meditative ecstasy.
Kazim Ali’s poetry debut draws on mystical traditions of the world’s religions in its urgent quest.
How we answer to love beneath the lash of history
The poetry of Kazim Ali "invites us to give ourselves over to the music of language" (Beloit Poetry Journal). Known for its lyrical and expressive language, "crafted with a controlled…
New and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and…
New poems from this poet of precision and ardor
An American poet takes on Eastern philosophy, Western culture, and his Muslim heritage
To go without food from dawn to dusk for the whole month of Ramadan - how does this feel? What do we become when we deny our major appetites during…
To go without food from dawn to dusk for the month of Ramadan - how does this feel? When we deny our major appetites, what do we become? Kazim Ali…
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In 1953, Yoko Ono wrote a score called Secret Piece, an open-ended formula for musical performance in a forest at daybreak. Beginning with this…
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A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present.
"I am leaving for…
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A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims.
"Our contemporary English is shifting too and so the poems I wrote then, in my house with two other humans and two animals and no one else in sight, dug…
Ananda Devi
A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.
I’m sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my…
Kristjana Gunnars
Kazim Ali introduces five autofiction novellas by Kristjana Gunnars-available in the U.S. for the first time, in a single, handsome volume
Between the late eighties and late nineties, Kristjana Gunnars…
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language is an important new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies…
YOU are Krishi, a Whisperer studying ancient, secret magic at the Citadel. A secret visitor arrives late one night with news of the encroaching attack by the powerful Narbolian empire…
Mallica Kumbera Landrus
A discussion of artistic and philosophical reflections on the constructions of space and identity in the work of Ali Kazim.
Olga Broumas,T Begley,Kazim Ali
Olga Broumas and T Begley include new collaborations in this reprint of a long out-of-print erotic and phosphorescent collaborative work
Sohrab Sepehri
First U.S. publication of one of Iran’s most important contemporary poets. This bilingual edition includes an essay/introduction by Kazim Ali.
