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City of Rivers (Mcsweeney's Poetry Series)
Zubair Ahmed
City of Rivers (Mcsweeney's Poetry Series)
Zubair Ahmed
We used to play soccer in the monsoon rains.
Through my windows, I can see acres of fields,
Lying in the ruins of the wind.
The poems in City of Rivers—the first full-length collection from 23-year-old wunderkind Zubair Ahmed—are clear and cool as a glass of water. Grounded in his childhood in Bangladesh, Ahmed?s spare, evocative poems cast a knowing eye on the wider world, telling us what it?s like to be displaced and replaced, relocated and dislocated. His poems are suffused with a graceful, mysterious pathos—and also with joy, humor, and longing—with the full range of human emotions. City of Rivers is a remarkable and precocious debut.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 11, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781938073021 |
Publishers | McSweeney's |
Pages | 72 |
Dimensions | 157 × 211 × 10 mm · 226 g |
Language | English |
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