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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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About the Author
Kazim Ali lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, where he is co-editor of Nightboat Books and an assistant professor of liberal arts at The Culinary Institute of America. He received his MFA from New York University and is the author of a novel, Quinn’s Passage (BlazeVox Books). His poetry has been published in The Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Rattapallax, and elsewhere.
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Still Life with Vase and Music
Four red boats clack against each other softly, lashed to the dock.
A vase is meant to hold, not to unravel.
Each tow-rope is a thread. Each thread is a chance to weave.
The vase gives form to emptiness, as music does to silence.
At the poet’s tomb in Kashmir supplicants tie green threads
around the bars to achieve the fulfillment of their prayers.
I do not want to return home without that which I came for.
The poet was here but he’s gone now you’ve missed him.”
The river turns three times on the journey home.
I tie the thread around my own wrist bone.
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- PublisherAlice James Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1882295536
- ISBN 13 9781882295531
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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