Book record
Diary of a wave outside the sea
Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl
Translated from Arabic by Dunya Mikhail
Diary of a wave outside the sea, by Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl, is a Arabic poetry collection from Iraq, translated by Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow, published by New Directions Pub. in 2009. It is a collection where displacement becomes elemental, with the wave outside the sea standing in for exile, estrangement, and impossible return. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- New Directions Pub.
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Iraq
- ISBN
- 9780811218313