Resident alien : on border-crossing and the undocumented divine / Kazim Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kazim, Ali.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

Part 1

September fourteenth

Acts of faith

Careless supplicant : an interview with Nima Najafi-Kianfar

Doubt and seeking : a conversation with Ilya Kaminsky

Disappearances : an interview with Britney Gulbrandsen

Third eye who sees : on the source of spiritual search in Sappho's gymnasium by T Begley and Olga Broumas

Poetry and space

Poetics of G-D

The rose is my qibla : Sohrab Sepehri's Journey east

Yoga and cessation of the self

Part 2

What's American about American poetry?

Poet crossing borders

Attempted treasons : some notes on recent translations

Bringing the house down : computer viruses in Anne Carson's Euripides

Old school

Translation is a trick

Pythagorean poetics

Ode to silence : lecture notes

Syllabus for a semester on silence

The opening.

Notes:

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472121472

0472121472

9780472072910

0472072919

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.8252696

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.