Author Description

All One's Blues collects early, new and unpublished poems by Kazim Ali. The range of poetry readers will encounter in the book is breathtaking: the poet gives voice to Miriam, the older sister of Moses, writes letters to Rumi, confronts avalanches, inhabits Icarus's falling body, laments the imprisonment of poets. Drawing from the tradition of Persian poetry and attuned to the turns of the ever-evolving English language, moving between prayers and confessions, these poems challenge and expand the scope of the lyric and the metaphysical.