Photo by Willa Nasatir
Fall 2023
Passage Series #7
Design by Rissa Hochberger
Forthcoming
About the book
Kaur Alia Ahmed’s Cursive Paradise asks how a refusal of cogency can lyrically expand perception. They write, “To weigh heavily on something / is to decide its shape,” and throw language into a state of excess. These poems shift and eddy, loop, and undulate, seeking out spaces of desire and onomatopoeic attraction. All the while, Ahmed offers a view of subjectivity and gender made resonant and malleable, insisting on language that is lush with what cannot be contained by the voice or the page.
Kaur Alia Ahmed’s Cursive Paradise is the winner of the 2021 Carolyn Bush Award.
About the author
Kaur Alia Ahmed is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. They make videos, drawings, poems, and plays. Their work has been shown with Interstate Projects, 77 Mulberry, Alyssa Davis Gallery, Rhizome, BOMB Magazine, and they have poems forthcoming with Hi-Lo Press and Baest Journal.