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An excerpt from Five Hymns to Pain: Home

Artists' Books
Nāzik Malāikah, Felica Rice
Art Library Rare Books Collection N 7433.4 .R52 E93 2012 box 9.2

Limited edition of 25 copies, Art Library has copy 7. "On March 5th, 2007, more than 30 people were killed when a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street, an old and established street for bookselling in the heart of Baghdad's literary and intellectual community. To protest the bombing, the Mutanabbi Street Coalition, a group started by San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil, organized readings and invited letterpress printers to produce broadsides by Iraqi poets and writers. Moving Parts Press contributed An Excerpt from Five Hymns to Pain by Nazik al-Malaika" — Moving Parts Press website, viewed on July 29, 2014.