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.
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