The war works hard = al-Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jid
By: Dunya Mikhail ; translated by Elizabeth Winslow, introduction by Saadi Simawe
Contributors: Winslow, Elizabeth, 1976-; Mīkhāʾīl, Dunyā, 1965-
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Other titles: Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jid
Work titles: Ḥarb taʻmalu bi-jid.
Description: Poems by an exiled Iraqi poet, many about war.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Saadi Simawe; title: I. The war works hard (2004). Bag of bones ; Shoemaker ; The war works hard ; The game ; The prisoner ; A drop of water ; Inanna ; An urgent call ; Non-military statements ; Between two wars ; Tough rose ; The jewel ; A voice ; Travel agency ; O ; Santa Claus ; Buzz ; Crashed acts ; Snowstorm ; To any other place ; I was in a hurry ; America ; Silent movie ; Laheeb and the city ; The rocking chair ; Traces ; The foreigner ; Five minutes; title: II. From Almost music (1997). The cup ; The resonance ; The artist child ; The departure of friends ; A tombstone ; The theory of absence ; Nothing here is enough ; What's new? ; The pomegranate seeds ; With one look from him ; An orange; title: III. From The psalms of absence (1993). Behind the glass ; The nun ; The new year ; Transformations of the child and the moon ; The Chaldean's ruins ; The shadow of a tear ; Pronouns ; Notes