Inquisition
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7762-7 (ISBN)
During the 1982 air strikes on Beirut, Faiz Ahmed Faiz asked his friend Mahmoud Darwish “Why aren’t the poets writing this war on the walls of the city?” Darwish responded, “Can’t you see the walls falling down?” Queer, Muslim, American, Kazim Ali has always navigated complex intersections and interstices on order to make a life. In this scintillating mixture of lyrics, narrative, fragments, prose poem, and spoken word, he answers longstanding questions about the role of the poet or artist in times of political or social upheaval, although he answers under duress. An inquisition is dangerous, after all, especially to Muslims whose poetry and art and spiritual life has always depended not on the Western ideal of a known God or definitive text but on the concepts of abstraction, geometry, vertigo. “Someone always asks ‘where are you from,’” Ali writes, “and I want to say ‘a body is a body of matter flung/from the far corners of the universe and I am a patriot/of breath of sin of the endless clamor/out the window.’” Ali engages history, politics, and the dangerous regions of the uncharted heart in this visceral new collection.
KAZIM ALI is a poet, essayist, novelist, and translator.
May I The Earthquake Days Flower Gate The Astronomer Abu Nuwas Light House John Night: A Celan Variation Phenomenal Survivals of Death in the Mountains Atlas His Mosaic Prayer System Error Sent Mail Origin Story Saraswati Puja The Failure of Navigation in the Valley II Trick Messy Drunk Letter to Zephyr from the Once-Boy Hyacinth The Labors of Psyche Letter to Hyacinth from the Once-Wind Zephyr Persephone as a Boy Drone Chopping the Birch The Tornado Screen Door Checkpoint The Dress-Maker of Galilee Sacrifice Amerika the Beautiful Inquisition III Bird Hospital Marie’s Crisis Missal Yannis Ritsos Random Search Square Sun Ward Text Cloud Anthology Forgotten Equations The Astronomer’s Son All One’s Blue Door Between You Son of History Legislature Apasmara Climbs to the Mountain Lake Acknowledgments Notes
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.03.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Wesleyan Poetry Series |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
ISBN-10 | 0-8195-7762-6 / 0819577626 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8195-7762-7 / 9780819577627 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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