{"product_id":"tablets","title":"Tablets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A bullet \/ then a siren \/ then ruins \/ then a bird song telling the truth\"--Dunya Mikhail \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her marvelous new poetry collection \u003cem\u003eTablets: Secrets of the Clay\u003c\/em\u003e, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols--Sumerian glyphs that were carved onto clay tablets--into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to the collection, Mikhail writes, \"I practiced at least two layers of translation in these tablets: the first from words in one language, Arabic, to another, English; and the second from words to images. What I received from my ancestors are offerings of the future rather than of the past. Now it's my turn to offer them to you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833683325133,"sku":"9780811237970","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_40161492-eba7-4970-875d-21752c2c6473.jpg?v=1790892797","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/tablets","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}