Gates

By Sahar Muradi

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625579845
• ISBN13: 9781625579843
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"