Fifteen Iraqi Poets by Anthology and translated by Dunya Mikhail

This is poetry from Iraq.

Fifteen Iraqi Poets by Anthology translated by Dunya Mikhail is published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811221795E12.

Fifteen Iraqi Poets is an anthology translated by Dunya Mikhail from Arabic, gathering Arabic-language poetry from Iraq through Iraqi poetic plurality, national fracture, and a curated chorus rather than a single heroic voice. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through war, exile, memory, and the different tonal registers a national literature needs in order to survive. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Fifteen Iraqi Poets belongs in the translated poetry library because it makes Iraqi poetry available as many voices answering history from different angles. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.