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Dhaka Dust
Contributor(s): Ahmed, Dilruba (Author)
ISBN: 1555975895     ISBN-13: 9781555975890
Publisher: Graywolf Press
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
Dewey: 811.6
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.28" W x 9.04" (0.39 lbs) 88 pages
 
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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 m lange 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Ahmed, Dilruba: - Dilruba Ahmed's work has appeared in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, and other publications. She was born in Philadelphia and raised in Ohio, and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College