In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail
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In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail <br><b>PBS Autumn Wild Card 2019</b> Victoria Gatehouse her successful but turbulent undergraduateAt the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhails 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 Wisawa Szymborska, and a lyricism