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Baghdad-born, Griffin Poetry Prize short-listed Mikhail (The War Works Hard) explains in an author's note to this sparkling new collection, "I wrote these poems from right to left and from left to right, in Arabic and English. I didn't translate them; I only wrote them twice." That dual act of writing is mirrored in her very content, as she finds the present layered with the past, Detroit fireworks recalling Baghdad bombs, the war's dead children recalling the pla...Log In or Sign Up to Read More