The War Works Hard

The War Works Hard
ISBN-10
0811216217
ISBN-13
9780811216210
Category
Fiction
Pages
100
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Authors
Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl, Elizabeth Winslow

Description

Poems by an exiled Iraqi poet, many about war.

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