O
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…
$27.00
July 5, 2022
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and the author of two previous full-length collections of poetry: Louder than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing, 2017) and To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Press, 2014), as well as two chapbooks: 3arabi Song (Rattle, 2016) and There Was and How Much There Was (smith|doorstop, 2016). Educated in Arabic, English, and French, Zeina has a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. Her poem “Maqam” won Poetry’s 2017 Frederick Bock Prize, and her work appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. Zeina is the co-creator and co-host, with poet Farah Chamma, of Maqsouda, a podcast about Arabic poetry produced by Sowt. She recently moved to California…
O
Zeina Hashem Beck
Shade is a place
MaKshya Tolbert
Mesopotopia
Anne Waldman
End of Empire
Marissa Davis
Is This My Final Form?
Amy Gerstler
the space between men
Mia S. Willis
Hivestruck
Vincent Toro
mother
m.s. RedCherries
Being Reflected Upon
Alice Notley
Colorfast
Rose McLarney
Thick with Trouble
Amber McBride
Organs of Little Importance
Adrienne Chung
Tarta Americana
J. Michael Martinez
Information Desk
Robyn Schiff
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes
Flickering
Pattiann Rogers
Unravel
Tolu Oloruntoba
antibody
Rebecca Salazar
Forecast: Pretty Bleak
Chris Bailey
total
Aisha Sasha John
Paper Boat
Margaret Atwood
Signal Infinities
Melanie Siebert
woke up no light
Leila Mottley
The Seventh Town of Ghosts
Faith Arkorful
shima
sho yamagushiku
Empires of the Everyday
Anna Lee-Popham
The Knot of My Tongue
Zehra Naqvi
A Year of Last Things
Michael Ondaatje
From the Lost and Found Department
Joy Kogawa
After That
Lorna Crozier