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  • On the Brink of Belief

    Queer Writing from South Asia | LGBTQIA+ Stories from South Asia on Faith, Identity & Belonging Told Through Memoir, Poetry & Fiction

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Djinns linger in homes, an Assamese grandmother says. Peculiar cousins haunt Kashmiri family trees. Redemption for Shaitan is found on a bathroom floor in Lahore. In Dhaka, questions hang heavy in a police cell. Farewell emails offer closure to a relationship set against the backdrop of the decriminalization bill in Sri Lanka. And in a quiet kitchen somewhere in Nepal, memories still glow like ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD

  • Indian Winter

    by Kazim Ali ...
    CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEWA queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present."I am leaving for the winter – I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers – to write, read, think, all the most important things in the world but which are thought the least important, the most expendable."Thus begins the Indian ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Citadel of Whispers

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Defend your magical world in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 48 possible endings!Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children's series of all time–are now available for teen readers! For fans of Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone and Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen, this multiple-ending epic will transport you to a world of adventure.YOU ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man in 119

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Kazim Ali's latest collection uses a migrant geography to explore how the self moves through grief.The Man in 119, the latest collection from accomplished poet Kazim Ali, explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world. Here, the tongue becomes a collaboration between human and glacial current—the self, a “tectonic topography of god." Grappling with questions of mortality ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Northern Light

    Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Winner, Banff Mountain Book Award for Environmental LiteratureFinalist, Lambda Literary Award (LGBTQ Nonfiction)"It begins to rain as we fly, falling in solid sheets, water from sky to earth — a free system of exchange."Kazim Ali’s earliest memories are of Jenpeg, a temporary town in the forests of northern Manitoba where his immigrant father worked on the construction of a hydroelectric dam. As a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Black Buffalo Woman

    An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton

    by Kazim Ali ...
    This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton.Black Buffalo Womanis a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work through the eyes of celebrated poet and scholar, Kazim Ali. Collecting chapters of Clifton’s early manuscripts, late drafts, and integrating her books of children’s literature, Ali’s meticulously ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Sukun

    New and Selected Poems

    by Kazim Ali ...
    The poetry of Kazim Ali “invites us to give ourselves over to the music of language” (Beloit Poetry Journal). Known for its lyrical and expressive language, “crafted with a controlled, delicate quality that never stops questioning, never stops teaching, and never stops astounding,” (American Poet), Ali’s work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Inquisition

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Finalist for Lambda Award for Gay Poetry, given by Lambda Literary, 2019During the 1982 air strikes on Beirut, Faiz Ahmed Faiz asked his friend Mahmoud Darwish "Why aren't the poets writing this war on the walls of the city?" Darwish responded, "Can't you see the walls falling down?" Queer, Muslim, American, Kazim Ali has always navigated complex intersections and interstices on order to make a ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Far Mosque

    by Kazim Ali ...
    This is the author’s second book. Author is very active as a speaker and reader, and is well-connected in the Asian-American literary community. Though this is his first poetry collection, he has been an active reader for over a decade. The book has excellent potential for creative writing and Asian studies course adoption. Author holds an MFA from New York University. Author’s poetry, fiction and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fortieth Day

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Series series
    From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or stormbeaten passenger knows there is no state “after,” but finally accepts the present state as a permanent one.In The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali follows the fractured narratives and moving lyrics of his debut collection, The Far Mosque, with a deeply ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Pluck Me and Hum

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Kazim Ali has become known for his careful attention to the architecture of a poem, his restless intellect and his musically driven line. In these eight poems and two diary entries, Ali draws on deep literary and cultural tradition to explore history, devotion, both spiritual and physical, and loss and loneliness in fractured lyrics, surreal narratives and prose poems. In addition to a ghazal, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Voice of Sheila Chandra

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back. ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus