"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.

"This book is dedicated to the literary and intellectual community of al-Mutannabi Street, Baghdad. The text was selected from 'The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology' edited by Nathalie Handal. Designed and printed by Felicia Rice with the help of Stephen Acerra and Maren Preston"--Colophon.