The Iraqi Nights

by Dunya Mikhail

The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a future beyond the violence of a place where "every moment / something...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811222861
• ISBN13: 9780811222860
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.7"