Resident Alien: On Border-Crossing and the Undocumented Divine

by Kazim Ali

Book Overview

Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects--the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body--to situate the individual human body into a larger global context, with all of its political and social implications. He finds in the quality of ecstatic utterance his passport to regions where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052918
• ISBN13: 9780472052912
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"