Overview

Mikhail writes: ""Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand."" The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between memories of her childhood, her father's death, her Iraqi poet-peers and friends, her job as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, and culminates with the birth of her daughter Larsa.

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A special treat Mikhail preserve[s] the vitality of her nurturing milieu [with] the strength to endure in a new world.--David Varno

A special treat - Mikhail preserve[s] the vitality of her nurturing milieu [with] the strength to ... endure in a new world. -- David Varno

""A special treat - Mikhail preserve[s] the vitality of her nurturing milieu [with] the strength to ... endure in a new world."" -- David Varno - The Brooklyn Rail

Author Information

Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq in 1965. While working as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer, she faced increasing threats from the authorities and fled to the United States in the late 1990s. In 2001, she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Her first poetry book in English, The War Works Hard, was named one of 2005' twenty-five Books toRemember by the New York Public Library and Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea won the 2010 Arab American Book Award for poetry. Mikhail teaches atOakland University, Michigan.

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