Dunya Mikhail

In Her Feminine Sign

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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 Wisława 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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31 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
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  • negro sonda espacialhas quoted3 years ago
    I read that flamingoes
    have migrated back to Iraq
    after a twenty-year absence,
    and I bend my head,
    imitating the perfect,
    half-hearted Valentine
    shape they make in pairs.
    I wait for you
    at the lake’s edge
    standing on one leg.
    The moon I swallow
    when I open my beak
    and fly home to you
    will be full
  • negro sonda espacialhas quoted3 years ago
    he was dead to her, or if
    she means she was dead
    without him
  • negro sonda espacialhas quoted3 years ago
    We are not dead,
    and those are not our ghosts

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