{"product_id":"crossroad-mirror-poems-paperback","title":"Crossroad Mirror: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHussain Ahmed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar and its reverberations propel people across the Nigerian landscape in Hussain Ahmed's third collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCrossroad Mirror \u003c\/i\u003emany poems begin after sundown--in quiet moments when the bounds between the past and the present, the living and the dead, blur. War and its aftershocks often form the backdrop for these scenes, though Ahmed's verse rarely brings us to the battlefield itself. Instead, we hear the stories of refugees, civilian casualties, and ordinary soldiers trying to make sense of their circumstances. \"There's no vocabulary in the army--for grief, or death,\" writes Ahmed. \"Each door you exit, leads to another parade ground.\" A group of soldiers wait out a rainstorm--and the war--together in a tent. Their families linger by the radio and listen for news. The \"missing\" loom as large as the dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tracing the threads of migration that war so often catalyzes, \u003ci\u003eCrossroad Mirror \u003c\/i\u003etakes us from grassland to cornfield to coastline and explores the role storytelling and spirituality play in leaving and grieving. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHUSSAIN AHMED\u003c\/b\u003e is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist and author of \u003ci\u003eSoliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlue Exodus\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the winner of the 2024 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize and the 2024 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest, and his poems have been featured in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, The Best American Poetry, A Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.7 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43155100991551,"sku":"9780810149304","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/vrWT6Td5OX9780810149304.webp?v=1776962205","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/crossroad-mirror-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}