Tablets: Secrets of the Clay
by Mikhail, Dunya
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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."
Product Details
- New Directions Brand
- Sep 3, 2024 Pub Date:
- 0811237974 ISBN-10:
- 9780811237970 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.5 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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