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I Drag My Sorrow by His Collar

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    80 pages

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    31 December 2026

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Summary

A debut collection in English by an Arabic poet whose prose poems engage with what it’s been like to be a woman and live in Iraq during the last two decades, particularly amid battles with the Islamic State and other dangerous entities.

I Drag My Sorrow by His Collar is Iraqi poet Hanaa Ahmad Jabr’s first solo collection in English, following the release of her celebrated, collaborative, bilingual collection Where do you live? أين تعيشين؟. In her ast…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781965154236
ISBN-10:1965154239
Author:Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, Jennifer Jean, Wadaq Qais
Publisher:Black Ocean
Imprint:Black Ocean
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:80
Release Date:31 December 2026
Dimensions:139mm x 177mm
Series:Songs for Fairuz
I Drag My Sorrow by His Collar by Hanaa Ahmad Jabr - ISBN: 9781965154236
139 × 177 mm
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About The Author

Hanaa Ahmad Jabr

Hanaa Ahmad Jabr lives in Mosul, Iraq. She is a prize-winning poet and short story writer who has participated in critical conferences and international poetry festivals. She holds a PhD in Arabic Literature and is a professor at the University of Mosul. Jabr cowrote and co-translated Where Do You Live? أين تعيشين؟ A Correspondence in Arabic and English Poems with American poet Jennifer Jean.

Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include The Pacific and The Fool, and her chapbooks include VOZ, Object Lesson, and In the War. She is also the author of Object Lesson: A Guide to Writing Poetry. Jean is the editor of Other Paths for Shahrazad: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women and the series editor of Songs for Fairuz: New Arab Women’s Poetry. She is an organizer for the Her Story Is collective, a faculty member at Solstice MFA, and a senior program manager at the Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Salem, MA.

Wadaq Qais lives in Basra, Iraq. She co-translated the collaborative, bilingual collection Where Do You Live? أين تعيش؟ A Correspondence in Arabic and English Poems and is a member of the Her Story Is collective.

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