Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks about her experiences writing provocative poetry in two different countries.
Dunya Mikhail: Politics in Service of Poetry
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Iraq
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Poem: Infinite Regress of War
Sepulchre of repeated images / Won’t someone shatter the pure reflection of glass?