In this Book
- Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Poets on Poetry
summary
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.
“Ali has a vibrant and generous personality that lets one hear the inner music that makes us remember what it is to be human.”
—Painted Bride Quarterly
—Painted Bride Quarterly
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Part 1.
- September Fourteenth
- pp. 3-6
- Acts of Faith
- pp. 7-16
- Poetry and Space
- pp. 72-83
- Poetics of G-D
- p. 84
- Yoga and Cessation of the Self
- pp. 93-104
- Part 2.
- What’s American about American Poetry?
- pp. 107-120
- Poet Crossing Borders
- pp. 121-150
- Old School
- pp. 168-170
- Translation Is a Trick
- pp. 171-174
- Pythagorean Poetics
- pp. 175-178
- Ode to Silence: Lecture Notes
- pp. 179-186
- Syllabus for a Semester on Silence
- pp. 187-188
- The Opening
- pp. 189-192
- Bibliography
- pp. 193-196
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472121472
Related ISBN(s)
9780472052912, 9780472072910
MARC Record
OCLC
935989742
Pages
204
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-27
Language
English
Open Access
No