Bring Now the Angels

ebook Poems · Pitt Poetry

By Dilruba Ahmed

cover image of Bring Now the Angels

Sign up to save your library

With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

   Not today

Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

Download Libby on the App Store Download Libby on Google Play

Search for a digital library with this title

Title found at these libraries:

Library Name Distance
Loading...
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, <i>Bring Now the Angels</i> 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.<br><br><b>UNDERGROUND</b><br>...They are turning their locks<br>to paint their faces<br><br>and their daughters' faces.<br>They look on as the girls regard<br>their eyes in mirrors, in the long<br><br>cracked mirror of history, and war. <br>They paint themselves into existence<br>inside the shuttered rooms<br><br>of their hearts, where freedom<br>still bristles...
Bring Now the Angels