Kazim Ali (Book order)

Kazim Ali Book order

Kazim Ali is an American poet and essayist whose work often engages with themes of identity and displacement. His writing is recognized for its lyrical quality and philosophical depth. Ali's prose and poetry explore the complexities of the human experience with nuance and insight. His work invites readers to contemplate the world around them and their place within it.

Sweet Nothing

76 pages
3 hours of reading

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A new collection of essays, poems, and plays by award-winning poet Kazim Ali. In SWEET NOTHING Kazim Ali finds, just beneath the details of daily life, the presence of spiritual reality. A corner of the street, a gesture of the hand, the pattern on a rug, all act as evidence of a generative emptiness. Sweet Nothing documents those details in a language of charmed engagement, and claims language, whether prayer, monologue, or poem, as our most prized of veils over the abyss, as the beauty that grows from sweet nothing and the technique of linking one life with another. Ali's passionate attention explores the lyric truth of being alive, moment by moment. Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Poetry. Drama. LGBTQ+ Studies.