{"product_id":"gates-9781625579843","title":"Gates","description":"If you open Sahar Muradi's [ G A T E S ] and follow each line into the entryways and departures, passed \" convention centers and expos \/ and festivals that begin at sunset,\" you will witness the poet's memories as tiny explosions of intimacies that devastate with their precision and candor. On images of Ferris wheels and \" prayer on the side of the road,\" the poet \" kneels and spreads [her] picnic\" of wonder. Sahar Muradi makes sense of the fragments of memory, the broken buildings of Kabul, Mazar, and Panjsher, the innocence of childhood punctured by journey, a father's illness, losing a language, and the politics of a war uninvited. Muradi beckons you, asks how you \" authored poorer nations with the hope of freeing \/ others. The architects of what's left.\" Indeed the political act of poetry in this fierce collection is a pained beauty that does not look away as it rebuilds the human starting with the heart. -- Rajiv Mohabir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuradi, Sahar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sahar Muradi is a writer, performer, and educator born in Afghanistan and raised in the US \/ is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eOne Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e \/ is co-founder of the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association \/ has published most recently in \u003cem\u003eBone Bouquet, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDusie\u003c\/em\u003e \/ is a recipient of the 2016 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award, a Kundiman Poetry Fellowship, and an AAWW Open City Fellowship \/ directs the poetry programs at City Lore \/ and believes in the bottom of the rice pot.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360969593106,"sku":"9781625579843","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b01360cc-5a48-4fbb-9ffc-91c75f5f9a45.jpg?v=1728368620","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gates-9781625579843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}