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Title:

RESIDENT ALIEN
ON BORDER-CROSSING AND THE UNDOCUMENTED DIVINE

By:

Ali Kazim

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0472052918

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9780472052912

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS

Pub. date:

23 October, 2015

Series:

Poets on Poetry

Pages:

208

Description:

A deeply complex and beautiful analysis of poetry in its many forms and its use in collaborations with other arts and disciplines.

Synopsis:

Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body-to situate the individual human body into a larger global context, with all of its political and social implications. He finds in the quality of ecstatic utterance his passport to regions where reason and logic fail and the only knowledge is instinctual, in physical existence and breath. This collection includes Ali's essays on topics such as Anne Carson's translations of Euripides; the poetry and politics of Mahmoud Darwish; Josey Foo's poetry/dance collaborations with choreographer Leah Stein; Olga Broumas' collaboration with T. Begley; Jorie Graham's complication of Kenneth Goldsmith's theories; the postmodern spirituality of the 14th century Kashmiri mystic poet Lalla; translations of Homer, Mandelstam, Sappho, and Hafez; as well as the poet Reetika Vazirani's practice of yoga.

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The University of Michigan Press

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