This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon co-exists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed's second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss - of a beloved family member, of human dignity & potential, of the earth as it stands, of hope. Her poems weave mourning with the erratic process of healing, skepticism with an unsteady attempt to regain faith.

Bring Now the Angels: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Ahmed, Dilruba

Poetry

University of Pittsburgh Press

Pen America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, #20; We the People

Trujillo, Josh

Abenshushan, Vivian

Engright, Anne

Sax, Sam Mosley, Walter

PEN America

Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Poetry, the debut collection by Dilruba Ahmed 
Can't occupy the same space at the same time unless, of course, you land in Dhaka ―from "Dhaka Dust" Ranging across Europe and America to the streets of Bangladesh, the sharp-edged poems in Dhaka Dust are culled from a rich mélange of languages, people, and poetic attitudes. Through lyric and narrative poems, Dilruba Ahmed's keen observations on birth, motherhood, and death offer a unique way into the beckoning world. Voices of villagers resonate alongside those of global travelers, each searching for an elusive homeland in small towns and cities alike. Vendors hawk their wares at a bazaar in Dhaka. Gyms in Ohio double as mosques for uprooted immigrants. In Ahmed's skillful hands, these disparate subjects adroitly capture the textures of life in this new century.

Dhaka Dust: Poems

Graywolf Press

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