By Kazim Ali
Inebriated at the sunlight and the ocean, Kazim Ali’s new poems swoop linguistically yet floor themselves vividly within the day-by-day and genuine. either imprisoned via endlessness and depending on it for nurturing and care, in Sky Ward Ali is going additional than ever prior to in sounding out the areas among tune and silence, among sky and ocean, among human and everlasting. “Daily I want stitched right here to live,” moans his Prometheus, considering what free up from established bondage may really portend. “So lengthy liberation,” his Icarus sings as he plummets from the sky with desperation and charm, able to unfeather and plunge into the everything-new. even if within the prolonged poem-prayer to Alice Coltrane or within the “deleted scenes” and “alternate endings” to his significantly acclaimed quantity vivid Felon, or within the spirit-infused and multi-faceted lyrics he has develop into identified for, Ali once more reinvents probabilities for the private lyric and narrative.
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He at the moment is living in Oberlin, Ohio.