For writer Kazim Ali, writing has always been personal.
As the author of over a dozen books — including seven books of poetry, five novels and five essay collections — he’s often had to mine the deepest depths of his psyche for a profound sentence or a heartfelt stanza. Not to mention his day job is as a literature and writing professor at the University of California San Diego.
But when asked where “Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water” ranks in comparison to his other projects, he doesn’t hesitate to remark that the recently published book was his most ambitious project and one that left him feeling deeply changed.