Dunya Mikhail

Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl

Elizabeth Winslow

Poems by an exiled Iraqi poet, many about war.

The War Works Hard

An impressionistic memoir by the award-winning Iraqi-American writer, Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea covers her earliest sensations of childhood to a more complicated grasp of death, beginning with the death of her father to the Gulf War and the subsequent Iraqi War. Mikhail writes: “Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand.”

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

A treasury of 15 new, contemporary poems, each written by a prominent 20th-century Iraqi poet, features commentary by an award-winning Iraqi-American poet and serves as an introduction to Middle-East literary traditions shaped by ancient Sumer and the realities of continuous war and brutality. Original.

Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl

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