This groundbreaking, transgenre work--part detective story, part
literary memoir, part imagined past--is intensely autobiographical
and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city,
and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the
struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and
family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long
held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time,
ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art,
history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and
religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven
themes. Bright Felon is literally "autobiography" because the text
itself becomes a form of writing the life, revealing secrets, and
then, amid the shards and fragments of experience, dealing with the
aftermath of such revelations. Bright Felon offers a new and active
form of autobiography alongside such texts as Theresa Hak Kyung
Cha's Dictee, Lyn Hejinian's My Life, and Etel Adnan's In the Heart
of the Heart of Another Country. A reader's companion is available
at http: //brightfelonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/
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