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    The Fortieth Day
    The Fortieth Day
    The Fortieth Day
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    The Fortieth Day

    By Kazim Ali

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    Kazim Ali is a well-known younger poet whose first book, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), sold through its first printing and continues to sell. Ali now writes a regular feature on contemporary poetics and culture for The American Poetry Review which will further establish his reputation. Ali has a professionally-designed website (www.kazimali.com) and will use it to help promote The Fortieth Day. He has many contacts in the poetry world and will call on them for readings, reviews, and publicity. He lives in the Bronx and will read and promote extensively around New York City. Raised in an Islamic household and a dedicated practitioner of yoga, Ali addresses issues of spirituality and meditation in his poetry in a fresh, provocative way.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781938160752
    The Fortieth Day
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    Kazim Ali

    Born in the UK and raised in Canada, Kazim Ali is a Queer, Muslim writer who is currently professor and chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of 25 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and translations, as well as the editor of five collected volumes. In 2004, he co-founded the small press Nightboat Books and served as its first publisher, and he continues to edit books with the press. Ali is also a certified yoga instructor, teaching yoga and training yoga teachers in Ramallah, Palestine for many years.

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      The Fortieth Day - Kazim Ali

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      THE FORTIETH DAY

      [image: cover]

      Copyright © 2008 by Kazim Ali

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      For information about permission to reuse any material from this book please contact The Permissions Company at www.permissionscompany.com or e-mail permdude@eclipse.net.

      Publications and programs by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with the assistance of grants from the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts; the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the County of Monroe, NY; the Lannan Foundation for support of the Lannan Translations Selection Series; the Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester; the Steeple-Jack Fund; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak and Dan Amzalak; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon on page 80 for special individual acknowledgments.

      Cover Design: Lisa Mauro

      Cover Art Photograph: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

      Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

      Manufacturing: Thomson-Shore

      BOA Logo: Mirko

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Ali, Kazim, 1971–

        The fortieth day: poems / by Kazim Ali. — 1st ed.

            p. cm. — (American poets contiuum series; no. 110)

        Includes bibliographical references.

        ISBN 978-1-934414-04-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)

        I. Title. II. Title: 40th day.

        PS3601.L375F67 2007

        811'.6—dc22

      2007038074

      BOA Editions, Ltd.

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      CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

         1

      Lostness

      Morning Prayer

      Dear Father, Dear Sound

      Dear Sunset, Dear Avalanche

      Mouth

      The Art of Breathing

      The Far Mosque

      Rope

      Cave

      Chasm

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