Lebanon
From a forthcoming book titled This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty.
Hashem Beck, Zeina. O. New York: Penguin Books, 2022.
Poet and translator Marilyn Hacker reads from her collections Names (2010) and A Stranger's Mirror (2015). She also reads from her translations from the French of works by poets Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Claire Malroux.
Trish Salah reads from Wanting in Arabic (2002), If a child is a land you may not own (2013), and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (2017, Canadian edition) at the 2017 Thinking Its Presence conference.
Zeina Hashem Beck reads from her first three books—To Live in Autumn (2014), Louder Than Hearts (2017), and O (2022)—as well as from her forthcoming This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty (2027). Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon, feature throughout the work Hashem Beck shares. She also reads poems in forms including a triptych, a bilingual "duet" mixing English and Arabic, and "flipping" sonnets, which are read both top to bottom and bottom to top.
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