Blackbird Archive
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Poetry · Volume 6, Number 2

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Raza Ali Hasan

Where the ever-rolling concrete comes to a stop

and junks drop anchor for metaphysical comfort,

stands the emporium of water sculptures

where bargain hunters converge and stand at attention

as God fixes interest rates, hands out short- and long-term loans,

and makes nations rise and fall the way the sea ebbs and flows.

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Raza Ali Hasan

Raza Ali Hasan’s book of poetry, Grieving Shias , was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2006. His second poetry manuscript, 67 mogul miniatures, is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2009. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Shenandoah , Tampa Review, Cimarron Review , Puerto del Sol and Poetry International . Hasan received an MFA from Syracuse University, and also has an MA in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a visiting professor at Iowa State University.