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Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

Mikhail, Dunya

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0811237974
ISBN13: 9780811237970
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: 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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