A contemporary woman makes complex negotiations with history and culture in a voice equally strong, discerning, God-soaked, and edgycreating music out of personal longing and cultural tragedy. Hashem Beck's poems offer a lens through which to see life in the Middle East. They are timeless explorations of love, loss, and the poet's attempt to understand her own experience in the context of world events and the spiritual realities that permeate them. Table of Contents A Note On Arabic Words And Transliteration Broken Ghazal: Speak Arabic 1. Shafaq I Dreamt We Threw Bread Crumbs After The Explosions Listen You Fixed It My Town Ghazal: The Dead Message From My Aunt On Her Son's Death Anniversary Pizza With Lightbulb zamto Dismantling Grief 2. Ya'aburnee Relentless Thirty-Two And In A Different Country Ya'aburnee Tahtariq/Burning And Still, The Sun Terror/Mathematics Inside Out Ghazal: This Hijra Ghazal: Back Home Naming Things 3. Ahwak Louder Than Hearts and Derbakkehs The Woman In Our House Wallada Bint Al-Mustakfi Speaks Majnun Ode To My Non-Arabic Lover My Non-Arabic Lover And I Take The Train Khandaq Mon Amour 4. Adhan Maqam Qudud Variations This Country: Ghazal for Abdel Halim Hafez Ghazal: Samira Tawfi Sings A Love Poem Umm Kulthum Speaks Messages in the Dark Fi Yom Wi Leila zarabi Song Piano Carioca Body Adhan Notes Acknowledgments

Louder Than Hearts: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Beck, Zeina Hashem

Poetry

Bauhan Publishing

This landmark anthology gathers together almost two-hundred vibrant English-language love poems by living writers of Arab descent. We Call to the Eye and to the Night is an amalgam of eminent poets ―Hayan Charara, Leila Chatti, Nathalie Handal, Fady Joudah, and Naomi Shihab Nye, among them―and those who have just begun to make their mark. These poets are descended from diverse countries and represent a breathtaking intersection of voices, experiences, and perspectives. Divided into whimsical sections (named for lines from poems they include), the anthology features an evocative array of erotic and romantic selections, as well as ones portraying love of family, friends, heritage, and homeland. Exquisitely curated and introduced by acclaimed authors Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, We Call to the Eye and to the Night is at once sexy, sensuous, adventurous, and nostalgic―a treasury of love emanating from the Arab world and its diaspora.

We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage

Alyan, Hala

Persea

3arabi Song

Rattle

"Zeina Hashem Beck crafts a multifaceted portrait of the people and the streets of Beirut. Part love-letter, part elegy, Hashem Beck's debut collection keeps the city from becoming 'a shadow of a memory, / the memory of a shadow' for poet and reader both, offering us instead 'labyrinths / in which we get lost on purpose.' This collection is as vibrant and sensitive as its subject―the city that 'understands / not being tired of being.' Join me in an enthusiastic welcome for a compelling new voice in Anglophone poetry."—John Hennessy

To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry)

THE BACKWATERS PRESS

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