Tablets : Secrets of the Clay
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
180017439X
ISBN-13
9781800174399
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Poetry
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 26th, 2024
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
176 grams
Dimensions
13.50 x 21.50 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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These short poems, considered as Iraqi haiku, reflect an urgent wisdom beyond their original borders.
'A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth' — Dunya MikhailIn her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols – Sumerian glyphs that were carved into 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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