Diary of a wave outside the sea by Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl and translated by Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow

This is poetry from Iraq.

Diary of a wave outside the sea by Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl translated by Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow is published by New Directions Pub.. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811218313E12.

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.

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