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Title

• The war works hard = al-Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jidd / Dunya Mikhail ; translated by Elizabeth Winslow, introduction by Saadi Simawe.

Author

Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965-

Publication

New York, NY : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā, 1965-
• New Directions Publishing.
• Winslow, Elizabeth, 1976-

Description

xiii, 80 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Poems by an exiled Iraqi poet, many about war.

Uniform Title

Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jidd. English

Alternative Title

• Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jid
• Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jidd.

Subject

Arabic poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / by Saadi Simawe -- I. The war works hard (2004). Bag of bones ; Shoemaker ; The war works hard ; The game ; The prisoner ; A drop of water ; Inanna ; An urgent call ; Non-military statements ; Between two wars ; Tough rose ; The jewel ; A voice ; Travel agency ; O ; Santa Claus ; Buzz ; Crashed acts ; Snowstorm ; To any other place ; I was in a hurry ; America ; Silent movie ; Laheeb and the city ; The rocking chair ; Traces ; The foreigner ; Five minutes -- II. From Almost music (1997). The cup ; The resonance ; The artist child ; The departure of friends ; A tombstone ; The theory of absence ; Nothing here is enough ; What's new? ; The pomegranate seeds ; With one look from him ; An orange -- III. From The psalms of absence (1993). Behind the glass ; The nun ; The new year ; Transformations of the child and the moon ; The Chaldean's ruins ; The shadow of a tear ; Pronouns ; Notes.

ISBN

0811216217 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004028184

OCLC

57068608

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library