Inquisition – poems – Kazim Ali
Inquisition
poetry by Kazim Ali
Wesleyan University Press, 2018
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Do strangers make you human – {from} Drone
This odd exactitude. This thisness. These inhabited levitations. These spiritual hashtags for the redactions of Babel. This poetry….found, founded, in Kazim Ali’s Inquisition.
To know there is always another text.
In a different book Jesus
never suffered, never was flogged or died
went whole into heaven without passion – {from} The Earthquake Days
To command, with embodiment, form.
…do swear oblivion
Has its own markers but where the buoy
Of being clangs its stellar ore – {from} All One’s Blue
This is a searching work, a locating text, and its voice is one that makes of ground a hymn to some future itinerary. Ali is a believer in, a writer of, histories unmade by a record-breaking presence. If he wanders into the loneliness of the long distance runner, it is…
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