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Renunciation by Kazim Ali | Poetry Foundation

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Poet, editor, and prose writer Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian descent and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. He earned a BA and MA from the University at Albany-SUNY...

Share “The Sailor cannot see the North—but knows the Needle can—” The books were all torn apart, sliced along the spines Light filled all the openings that she in her silence renounced Still: her handwriting on the papers remembered us to her The careful matching of the papers’ edges was a road back One night Muhummad was borne aloft by a winged horse Taken from the Near Mosque to the Far Mosque Each book likens itself to lichen, stitching softly to tree trunks, to rocks what was given into the Prophet’s ears that night: A changing of directions—now all the scattered tribes must pray: Wonder w

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