Sukun : new and selected poems /
New and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim AliKazim Ali is a poet, novelist and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Wesleyan poetry.
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| Summary: | New and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim AliKazim Ali is a poet, novelist and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. 'Sukun' means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant. This Sukun draws a generous selection from Kazim's six previous full-length collections, and includes 35 new poems. It allows us to trace Ali's passions and concerns, and take the measure of his art, the close attention to the spiritual and the visceral and the deep language play that is both musical and plain spoken. |
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| Physical Description: | 318 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780819500700 0819500704 9780819500717 0819500712 |