The Iraqi Nights

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• The Iraqi Nights available on December 04 2023 from BiggerBooks for 14.79
  
• The Iraqi Nights available on November 09 2022 from Indigo for 17.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780811222860 ξ1 registered December 04 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780811222860 ξ2 registered November 09 2022
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 9780811222860R
  
• Sku # 978081122286
  

Taking 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 ordinary / will happen under the sun.” Unlike Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with a deep poetic intimacy. The author’s vivid illustrations — inspired by Sumerian tablets — are threaded throughout this powerful book.

^ (2015). The Iraqi Nights BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780811222860 (revised Dec 2023)
^ The Iraqi Nights Indigo. ISBN 9780811222860 (revised Nov 2022)