Fasting for Ramadan : Notes from a Spiritual Practice

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 (and entirely contemporary) meditations on Islam's ancient ritual, as he traces his mind's reflections and his body's rigors through two annual cycles of fasting.