In Her Feminine Sign

by Dunya Mikhail

In Her Feminine Sign follows on the heels of Dunya Mikhail's devastating account of Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, The Beekeeper. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, a process she talks about in her preface, saying "The poet is at home in both texts, yet she remains a stranger." With a subtle simplicity and disquieting humor reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska and an unadorned lyricism wholly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228762
• ISBN13: 9780811228763
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.8"