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Shrapnel and Ash

Nazik al-Malaika

1949

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An early collection breaking classical metre for free verse.

Why this book matters

An Iraqi poet, co-founder of Arabic free verse and its first theorist — a woman who rewrote the rules of Arabic versification.

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