City of Rivers

By 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938073029
• ISBN13: 9781938073021
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.3"