Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"--Dunya Mikhail

In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols--Sumerian glyphs that were carved onto clay tablets--into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to the collection, Mikhail writes, "I practiced at least two layers of translation in these tablets: the first from words in one language, Arabic, to another, English; and the second from words to images. What I received from my ancestors are offerings of the future rather than of the past. Now it's my turn to offer them to you."

Author: Dunya Mikhail
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780811237970