Third Reich Of Dreams

Dunya Mikhail

Charlotte Beradt

Damion Searls

Princeton : Princeton University Press

Mikhail’s poetic vision transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries with liberating compassion.
Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an important new voice that rescues the human spirit from the ruins, unmasking the official glorification of war with telegraphic lexical austerity. Embracing literary traditions from ancient Mesopotamian mythology to Biblical and Qur'anic parables to Western modernism, Mikhail's poetic vision transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries with liberating compassion.

The War Works Hard

Literature & Fiction

Saadi S. Simawe

Elizabeth Winslow

Poetry

New Directions

A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of exile.
At the heart of Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, her fourth in English, is the Arabic suffix ta-marbuta, 'the tied circle,' a circle with two dots above it that determines a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, three kidnapped women, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. A section of 'Iraqi haiku' unfold like shimmering translations of carved Sumerian symbols on clay tablets. These tablets later transform into the digital tablets we carry to Mars. In another poem, Mikhail ponders the Sumerian word for 'freedom,' Ama-ar-gi, 'what seeps out / from the dead into our dreams.'
In Her Feminine Sign follows on the heels of Mikhail's devastating account of Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, The Beekeeper of Sinjar. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, not translated but 'twice-written,' as she says: 'The poet at home in both texts, yet she remains a stranger.' With a deceptive simplicity and disquieting humour reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborszka, and a lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail slips between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, between a game of chess and a flamingo, tracing new circles of light.

In Her Feminine Sign

Carcanet Press; Carcanet Poetry

Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

War Works Hard

Carcanet Press

Seven lyrical women poets, each accompanied by a study of their work, navigate our contemporary world. They travel to the depths of the psyche, experience exile, rhapsodize on the beauty of our planet, lament loss and celebrate renewal. These poets write courageously on what threatens us: climate change, war, mountain-top removal, loss of species, environmental damage, the scourge of cancer. They are witnesses, 'Couriers,' who bring us their visions. As the tide rises they reach out to us in deeply personal and clear voices, each providing a unique experience in contemporary poetry.

The Book of Now: Poetry for the Rising Tide

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

Leah Shelleda

Jane Downs

Anita Endrezze

Crystal Good

Frances Hatfield

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