# In Her Feminine Sign

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- Authors: [Dunya Mikhail](https://www.bookquiver.com/dunya-mikhail)
- Publisher: Carcanet
- ISBN: 978-17-8410-853-3
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2019-08-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card SelectionAt the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail’s luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, `the tied circle’ – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. With a deceptive simplicity and disquieting humour reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska, and a lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail slips between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, tracing new circles of light.