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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Gates

Gates

Muradi, Sahar

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1625579845
ISBN13: 9781625579843
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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

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