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Zuhur Dixon

Born in Abu Al-Khaseeb, Iraq, in 1933, Zuhur Dixon would spend much of her adult life in Baghdad. In ways subtle and complex, she wrote about the role of women in a repressive society. In English translation, her

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Dialogue of the Night of the Roses

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poetry book, named after a painting by the Italian mannerist painter Francesco Parmigianino, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and The National Book Critics Circle Award?

Answer

John Ashbery's Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror .

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