Except for This Unseen Thread Mirjam van Hengel Elten Kiene

Elten Kiene

he would generate permutation poems with the help of a computer

and grief through sorrowful songs that "we sing as hard as we live

including an open door or an outstretched hand

and even their imaginations

Except for This Unseen Thread Mirjam van Hengel Elten KieneRa'ad Abdulqadir (trans. Mona Kareem) Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Raads ability to write tender poems in times of destruction and fury. While many of his peers were writing poems about battlefields and faraway exiles, Raad was looking closer in, at the loneliness of those left behind. Hailed for its cinematic portrait of Iraq under sanctionsthe