In Her Feminine Sign (Paperback)

A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card Selection At the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, `the tied circle' - a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. With a deceptive simplicity and disquieting humour reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska, and a lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail slips between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, tracing new circles of light.

General

Imprint:	Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2019
Authors:	Dunya Mikhail
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-1-78410-853-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-78410-853-7
Barcode:	9781784108533

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