Fasting for Ramadan Cloth (Hardcover)

To go without food from dawn to dusk for the month of Ramadan - how does this feel? When we deny our major appetites, what do we become? Kazim Ali brings a poet's precision and ardor to his brilliant meditations on ritual fasting.Jane Hirshfield, author of AFTER and NINE GATES, says: "Kazim Ali -- a writer whose powers astonish in everything he puts pen to -- has made in FASTING FOR RAMADAN a book that is hybrid, peregrine, and deeply, quietly revelatory. Ali's meditations on the month-long ritual fast unfold, across cultures and spiritual practices, the deep meaning of a chosen foregoing. These journal-born pages are both intimate and public, at once ecumenical, particular, daily, and eloquently learned; planted on the deep roots of tradition, they breathe this moment's air. Is it possible for a work to be at once modest and an undeniable tour de force? This book proves: it is."

General

Imprint:	Tupelo Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	May 2011
Authors:	Kazim Ali
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	195
ISBN-13:	978-1-936797-03-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-936797-03-8
Barcode:	9781936797035

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