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Dunya Mikhail’s Followers (115)
Dunya Mikhail
Born
Baghdad, Iraq
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The Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
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published
2018
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15 editions
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The Bird Tattoo
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The War Works Hard
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published
2005
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5 editions
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The Iraqi Nights (New Directions Paperbook)
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published
2014
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5 editions
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In Her Feminine Sign
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published
2019
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5 editions
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Fifteen Iraqi Poets
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published
2013
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2 editions
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Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions Paperbook)
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published
1999
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3 editions
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Captives
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Tablets: Secrets of the Clay
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The Theory of Absence
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published
2013
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3 editions
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“I thank everyone I don't love.
They don't cause me heartache
they don't make me write long letters
they don't disturb my dreams
I don't await them anxiously
I don't read their horoscopes in magazines
I don't dial their numbers
I don't think of them.
I thank them a lot
they don't turn my life upside down.”
― The War Works Hard
They don't cause me heartache
they don't make me write long letters
they don't disturb my dreams
I don't await them anxiously
I don't read their horoscopes in magazines
I don't dial their numbers
I don't think of them.
I thank them a lot
they don't turn my life upside down.”
― The War Works Hard
“Nothing Here is Enough”
I need a parrot,
identical days,
a quantity of needles,
and artificial ink
to make history.
I need veiled eyelids,
black lines,
and ruined puppets
to make geography.
I need a sky wider than longing,
and water that is not H2O
to make wings.
The days are no longer enough
to distinguish the missing.
I no longer see you
because I no longer dream.
I offer a tear to the rain
as if scattering you
in the Dead Sea,
and in order to sing you,
I need glass to muffle the sound.”
― The War Works Hard
I need a parrot,
identical days,
a quantity of needles,
and artificial ink
to make history.
I need veiled eyelids,
black lines,
and ruined puppets
to make geography.
I need a sky wider than longing,
and water that is not H2O
to make wings.
The days are no longer enough
to distinguish the missing.
I no longer see you
because I no longer dream.
I offer a tear to the rain
as if scattering you
in the Dead Sea,
and in order to sing you,
I need glass to muffle the sound.”
― The War Works Hard
“If the world were flat
like a magic carpet,
our sorrow would have a beginning and an end.
If the world were square,
we would lie low in a corner
when the war plays "hide and seek."
If the world were round,
our dreams would take turns on the ferris wheel,
and we would be equal.”
― The Iraqi Nights
like a magic carpet,
our sorrow would have a beginning and an end.
If the world were square,
we would lie low in a corner
when the war plays "hide and seek."
If the world were round,
our dreams would take turns on the ferris wheel,
and we would be equal.”
― The Iraqi Nights
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