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Penguin, paperback

Publication Date:July 5, 2022

Publisher Marketing:From a brilliant, absolutely essential voice whose poems feel like whole worlds (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection consideringthe 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 electrifyingfrom lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeinas own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each otherOexplores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.