The Far Mosque
Kazim Ali, . . Alice James, $14.95 (67pp) ISBN 978-1-882295-53-1
Moving between biblical and Qur'anic stories, sections of this debut explore questions of comparative faith: "Why not a religion of water in a time of great fires?" Painterly minimalism, open-field technique and Near Eastern traditions together give Ali a neatly varied verbal palette for his smart, quietly attractive poems. Single-line stanzas and unrhymed couplets portray visionary and partly abstract spaces where "all the eventual answers are nothing," and a questing reader "will sometime soon say:
Reviewed on: 10/24/2005
Genre: Fiction
Open Ebook - 80 pages - 978-1-938584-84-8