BOA Titles by Kazim Ali
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Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is the recipient of the 2025 Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism for Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton. His poetry collections include Inquisition; Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of the Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre works Bright Felon, Wind Instrument, and Sukun: New and Selected Poems. His novels include The Secret Room: A String Quartet and Indian Winter, and his hybrid memoirs include Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. An accomplished translator, editor, and critic, Ali is the founding editor of Nightboat Books and serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He lives in San Diego, California.
