The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi
poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her
central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the
storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are
endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection,
seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a
future beyond the violence of a place where "every moment /
something ordinary / will happen under the sun." Unlike
Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but
to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces
between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with
a deep poetic intimacy. The author's vivid illustrations - inspired
by Sumerian tablets - are threaded throughout this powerful book.
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