{"title":"Dilruba Ahmed","description":"Dilruba Ahmed's debut book, Dhaka Dust, won the Bakeless Prize for Poetry, awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Blackbird, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Ahmed is the recipient of the Florida Review's Editors' Award and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize.","products":[{"product_id":"bring-now-the-angels-poems-paperback","title":"Bring Now the Angels: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon coexists 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 and 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. With poems that are by turns elegiac, biting, and tender, \u003ci\u003eBring Now the Angels\u003c\/i\u003e conveys a desire to move toward transformation and rebirth, even among seemingly insurmountable obstacles: chronic disease, corporate greed, environmental harm, and a general atmosphere of anxiety and violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eUNDERGROUND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...They are turning their locks\u003cbr\u003eto paint their faces \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand their daughters' faces.\u003cbr\u003eThey look on as the girls regard\u003cbr\u003etheir eyes in mirrors, in the long \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ecracked mirror of history, and war. \u003cbr\u003eThey paint themselves into existence\u003cbr\u003einside the shuttered rooms \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eof their hearts, where freedom\u003cbr\u003estill bristles...","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378357534943,"sku":"9780822966074","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cugW2PkcAZ9780822966074.webp?v=1789254486"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/dilruba-ahmed.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}