Tablets : secrets of the clay
Mikhail, Dunya, 1965-2024
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These short poems, considered as Iraqi haiku, reflect an urgent wisdom beyond their original borders. '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.'
Main title:
Tablets : secrets of the clay / Dunya Mikhail.
Author:
Mikhail, Dunya, 1965-, author
Imprint:
Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2024.
Collation:
ix, 133 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9781800174399 (pbk)9781800174405 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
892.717
LC class:
PJ7846.I392
Language:
EnglishArabic
Subject:
BRN:
837299