{"product_id":"the-war-works-hard-dunya-mikhail-9780811216210","title":"The War Works Hard","description":"\u003cb\u003eRevolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Yesterday I lost a country,\" Dunya Mikhail writes in \u003ci\u003eThe War Works Hard\u003c\/i\u003e, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an important new voice that rescues the human spirit from the ruins, unmasking the official glorification of war with telegraphic lexical austerity. Embracing literary traditions from ancient Mesopotamian mythology to Biblical and Qur'anic parables to Western modernism, Mikhail's poetic vision transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries with liberating compassion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dunya Mikhail, Elizabeth Winslow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811216217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2005 pg. 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2006 pg. 70","brand":"Dunya Mikhail","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980580651263,"sku":"9780811216210","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b4c8d5f-9d27-4004-a532-e00031865701.jpg?v=1683250713","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-war-works-hard-dunya-mikhail-9780811216210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}