Description To go without food from dawn to dusk for the month of Ramadan - how does this feel? When we deny our major appetites, what do we become? Kazim Ali brings a poet\'s precision and ardor to his brilliant meditations on ritual fasting.
Is it possible for a work to be at once modest and an undeniable tour de force? This book proves: it is.".
These journal-born pages are both intimate and public, at once ecumenical, particular, daily, and eloquently learned; planted on the deep roots of tradition, they breathe this moment\'s air.
Ali\'s meditations on the month-long ritual fast unfold, across cultures and spiritual practices, the deep meaning of a chosen foregoing.
Jane Hirshfield, author of AFTER and NINE GATES, says: "Kazim Ali -- a writer whose powers astonish in everything he puts pen to -- has made in Fasting FOR Ramadan a book that is hybrid, peregrine, and deeply, quietly revelatory.
Description To go without food from dawn to dusk for the month of Ramadan - how does this feel? When we deny our major appetites, what do we become? Kazim Ali brings a poet\'s precision and ardor to his brilliant meditations on ritual fasting
