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Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Kazim Ali
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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.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
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