Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

by Dunya Mikhail

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811237974
• ISBN13: 9780811237970
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"