An exciting younger poet explores the rhetoric of prayer and the dizzying possibilities of meditative ecstasy.
Kazim Ali's poetry has recently appeared in jubilat, Barrow Street, The American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry 2007. An e-chapbook "River Road" appeared on The Drunken Boat, and another long sequence appeared in Bridges: a Journal of Jewish Feminist Literature. His books are The Far Mosque (Alice James), and the novel Quinn's Passage (BlazeVox).