“THIS RHYTHM DOES NOT PLEASE ME”: WOMEN PROTEST WAR IN DUNYA MIKHAIL’S POETRY by LAMEES AL-ATHARI B.A., Al-Ma’amoon University College, 1999 M.A., College of Arts/ Baghdad University, 2001 A THESIS submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree ...

Boston Review, Susan Barba POETRY The War Works Hard SUSAN BARBA The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail, translated by Elizabeth Winslow New Directions, $13.95 (paper) As the first translation of poems by a female Iraqi poet to be published ...

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From Publishers Weekly “What good luck!/ She has found his bones.” So begins a litany of horrors from an Iraqi poet who witnessed Saddam’s regime’s atrocities firsthand. Mikhail, 40, works in Arabic, Chaldean and English, and had to flee Iraq ...

The American Poetry Review, Laurence Lieberman “The Laggard Bird,” by Dunya Mikhail Laurence Lieberman From: Clairvoyant with Hunger: Essays In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:“The Laggard Bird,” by Dunya Mikhail   A note on ...