Except for This Unseen Thread Mirjam van Hengel and grief through sorrowful songs

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

Over op een woord komen

including an open door or an outstretched hand

and even their imaginations

de winter die verloren gaat

Except for This Unseen Thread Mirjam van Hengel and grief through sorrowful songsRa'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