All One's Blue: New and Selected Poems

'Kazim Ali is a traveller both in time and in space, taking us into worlds that seem far apart - the omnipresent pastness of Cairo, contemporary Albany, the music of Alice Coltrane - but which, in fact, are bound together by his breath; the ways he breathes are the ways he writes. The result, far from being insubstantial, is as real as the sky, forever changing above us without our knowledge, but which achingly asks us to follow the poet as he dares its embrace. This is a beautiful, haunting book.' - Adil Jussawalla