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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

"O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck's poems unfold the abundance of our world." --Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

From a "brilliant, absolutely essential voice" whose "poems feel like whole worlds" (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacred

Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying--from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each other--O explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.

Book Details

Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780143136897
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Zeina Hashem Beck
Published Date:
2022-07-05
Language:
English

About Zeina Hashem Beck

A Lebanese poet, Zeina Hashem Beck holds a BA from the American University of Beirut and an MA from the University of Birmingham. Her debut, To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Press, 2014), won the 2013 Backwaters Prize, and Louder than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing, 2017) won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her collection O (Penguin Books, 2022), which made her the first Arab poet in the Penguin Poets series, won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for poetry. Her poem “Maqam” received the 2017 Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry. She teaches in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson College and Saint Mary's College of California.

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