Tablets: Secrets of the Clay

A gorgeous fusion of poetry and image by “one of the foremost poets of our time” (The Christian Science Monitor).

“A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth”—Dunya Mikhail

In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world’s first symbols—Sumerian glyphs that were carved onto clay tablets—into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short ...