O

<b>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY <i>LIT HUB </i>AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY <br></b><br><b>“</b><i><b>O </b></i><b>is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of </b><i><b>Deaf Republic</b></i><br> <br><b>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</b><br><br>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—<i>O </i>explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.