Cantos: A New Directions Blog New Directions Interview with Dunya Mikhail with 2 comments Though Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail writes of a different time and experience, I feel a powerful connection to her poems about war, loss, and exile. Both my ...

SPECIAL SERIES poetry Dunya Mikhail: ‘The War Works Hard’ ListenQueue Download Embed Transcript Facebook Twitter Google+ Email July 6, 200712:01 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Dunya Mikhail, who now lives in the United States, wrote her first poems as ...

Reading Dunya Mikhail’s New Book on Daesh’s Survivors BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 24, 2017 • ( 2 ) This year, poet Dunya Mikhail (Iraqi Nights, The War Works Hard) published a work of nonfiction about women’s lives under Daesh, In the Market of ...

  In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I’ve long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I’ve ...

The literature of war

PDF copy “Memory’s Broken Time Machine” A Review of Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. by Dunya Mikhail.  Reviewed by Matthew Kaul. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. by Dunya Mikhail. Translated by Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail. Paperback: ...

First Iraqi woman poet translated into English

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