Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

ISBN: 0811237974

Author: Mikhail, Dunya

Condition: New

A gorgeous fusion of poetry and image by one of the foremost poets of our time (The Christian Science Monitor).A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth-Dunya MikhailIn her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the worlds 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 its my turn to offer them to you.