In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail
A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of exile.
'terse, unadorned, stripped and ironic.. her voice is the inescapable voice of Arab poetry today.' - Pierre Joris
Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to the United States thirty years later in 1995. After graduating from the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. New Directions published her books The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea and The War Works Hard – chosen as one the New York Public Library’s Books to Remember in 2005 – as well as her edited volume, 15 Iraqi Poets. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Knights Foundation grant, a Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, and works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781784108533 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784108537 |
| Title | In Her Feminine Sign |
| Author | Dunya Mikhail |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Prizes | Commended for A Poetry Book Society Autumn Wild Card Selection 2019 |
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