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Dhaka dust : poems / Dilruba Ahmed.
LIBRA PS3601.H574 D48 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahmed, Dilruba.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Asian American authors.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 95 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Dhaka dust
- From the Fatwa series
- Thinking of his jaywalking ticket while boarding a plane and SFO
- What the fortune teller said
- Voltage
- Mississippi delta
- Dear Masoom
- Halloween
- Dhaka bazaar before departure
- The other side
- After the argument
- Small house
- Overheard
- Advice
- Fugue of new motherhood
- Grace
- Roulade
- Alpana
- Invitation
- Petition
- Ghazal
- Southeastern Ohio
- Turn
- Rumor had it
- Clepsydra
- Lightning
- Clear water
- Amateur's guide to divination
- Carnival
- Picasso's Self-Portrait in Blue Period, 1901
- Dustcover
- Qawwali
- Fever
- Josiah
- Dust and ashes
- The gardener's concession
- Return
- Witching hour
- Fable
- The 18th-century weavers of muslin whose thumbs were chopped
- At the stove-side
- Mother
- The map of another country
- New year
- In Brussels I learn to love
- Venice during an election year in the US
- Limoni
- Jinn
- Evening in Mendocino
- Looking for astronauts
- Slicing it open
- In the echo chamber
- Solstice
- Translating Tagore
- Dust catcher
- Jackfruit.
- Notes:
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize, 2010
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781555975890
- 1555975895
- OCLC:
- 681499451
- Publisher Number:
- 99972587642
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