
FASTING FOR RAMADAN
Notes from a Spiritual Practice
Kazim Ali(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 20. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
193 pages
978-1-932195-94-1 (ISBN)
Description
Fasting for Ramadan is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Estranged in certain ways from his family's cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali has in recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, and brings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy of reflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguistic precision and ardor of a superb poet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
256 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932195-94-1 (9781932195941)
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Person
Kazim Ali is author of two volumes of poetry, THE FAR MOSQUE (Alice James Books, 2005) and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008), four books of prose--the novels QUINN'S PASSAGE (BlazeVOX Books, 2004) and THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SETH (Etruscan Press, 2009); a collection of critical writing, Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence (University of Michigan Press, 2010), and the inspirational memoir FASTING FOR RAMADAN (Tupelo Press, 2011)--as well as a mixed-genre book, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), finalist for the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry and the Lantern Award for Memoir. Born to Indian parents living in England and raised in Canada and the U.S., Ali has worked as a political organizer, lobbyist, yoga instructor, and professor. Founding editor of Nightboat Books, he now teaches at Creative Writing and Literature at Oberlin College and in the University of Southern Maine's low-residency M.F.A. program.
Content
Contents
Preface - IX
New Moon in the Western Sky: Ramadan Essays - I
Absence of Stars: A Fasting Notebook - 113
Coda: Breaking the Fast - 173
Recipes - 183
Acknowledgments - 195
Preface - IX
New Moon in the Western Sky: Ramadan Essays - I
Absence of Stars: A Fasting Notebook - 113
Coda: Breaking the Fast - 173
Recipes - 183
Acknowledgments - 195