The book will be heavily promoted, especially in Kurdistan, where we will believe there will be a significant audience for the translation of Pashew’s work. Translator Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse runs an art and culture center in Kurdistan. Events will be held there and elsewhere in Kurdistan. LaBrosse will also be in California in the spring for events.

With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew's poems chart a personal cartography of exile, recounting the recent political history of Kurdistan and its struggle for independence. Poet-translator Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse worked with the poet to select and translate his most iconic poems, balancing well-known, politically engaged contemporary Kurdish classics like "12 Lessons for Children" with the concise love lyrics that have always punctuated his work.