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Except for This Unseen Thread small white monkies " comes into being andRa'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