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The Man in 119

by Kazim Ali

Grief traced through body, memory, and migration

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Grief traced through body, memory, and migration

Kazim Ali’s collection brings grief into conversation with the body and the natural world, using migration as a way to consider how the self changes through loss. The poems respond to the death of the speaker’s mother and return to questions of mortality and what, if anything, remains after death. Vignettes of people, memories, and geographies give the collection a range of points of entry into those questions. Its central movement links displacement with continuing to live: the body travels, bears loss, and carries experience forward.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Poetry readers interested in grief, absence, and mortality
  • Readers drawn to poems connecting migration, identity, and the body
  • Readers interested in nature and memory as subjects in contemporary poetry

Themes

Grief and lossMigration and the selfThe body and the natural worldMortality and memory

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Book overview

Kazim Ali's latest collection uses a migrant geography to explore how the self moves through grief.


The Man in 119, the latest collection from accomplished poet Kazim Ali, explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world. Here, the tongue becomes a collaboration between human and glacial current--the self, a "tectonic topography of god." Grappling with questions of mortality in the wake of his mother's passing, Ali asks where we go when we leave this world: "earth or sky or memory only." With musicality, these poems build a space for contemplation, offering vignettes of various individuals, memories, and geographies. We learn that in migration, the body moves, reproduces itself through the experience of losing and living still.

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