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- Author: Dunya Mikhail
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN-10: 0811237974
- ISBN-13: 9780811237970
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"--Dunya Mikhail
In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols--Sumerian glyphs that were carved onto 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."
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- Author: Dunya Mikhail
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN-10: 0811237974
- ISBN-13: 9780811237970
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"--Dunya Mikhail
In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols--Sumerian glyphs that were carved onto 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."
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