num_pages: 95
description: Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Poetry the debut collection by Dilruba Ahmed Can't occupy the same space at the same timeunless of course you land in Dhakafrom Dhaka DustRanging across Europe and America to the streets of Bangladesh the sharp-edged poems in Dhaka Dust are culled from a rich mlange 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.
language: English
title: Dhaka Dust: Poems
publisher: Graywolf Press