{"product_id":"bring-now-the-angels-poems-9780822966074","title":"Bring Now the Angels: Poems","description":"This 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. \u003cb\u003eUNDERGROUND\u003c\/b\u003e ...They are turning their locks to paint their faces and their daughters' faces. They look on as the girls regard their eyes in mirrors, in the long cracked mirror of history, and war. They paint themselves into existence inside the shuttered rooms of their hearts, where freedom still bristles...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDilruba Ahmed\u003c\/b\u003e's debut book, \u003ci\u003eDhaka Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Bakeless Prize for Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlackbird, Kenyon Review, New England Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry. \u003c\/i\u003eHer poems have also been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2019\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHalal If You Hear Me\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterature: The Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of\u003ci\u003e The Florida Review'\u003c\/i\u003es Editors' Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669334135058,"sku":"9780822966074","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dec5a934-fb4e-4e5b-9805-88ea9198e3cd.jpg?v=1733758234","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bring-now-the-angels-poems-9780822966074","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}