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- Book Synopsis
- 'A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth' - Dunya Mikhail In her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols - Sumerian glyphs that were carved into clay tablets - into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to the collection, Mikhail writes, 'I practiced at least two layers of translation in these tablets: the first from words in one language, Arabic, to another, English; and the second from words to images. What I received from my ancestors are offerings of the future rather than of the past. Now it's my turn to offer them to you.'
- About The Author
- Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim, and Kresge. The United Nations granted her Human Rights Watch Award for freedom of writing and Arab America listed her as 'one of ten modern Arab writers who should make Arabs proud'. According to the Christian Science Monitor, 'Dunya Mikhail is one of the foremost poets of our time'. She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic and poetry at Oakland University in Michigan.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800174399
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (26 September 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 144
- Weight
- 176 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 12 mm
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