Louder Than Hearts: Poems [Paperback]

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.Winner of the sixth annual May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry PrizeA Note On Arabic Words And TransliterationBroken Ghazal: Speak Arabic1. ShafaqI Dreamt We Threw Bread CrumbsAfter The ExplosionsListenYou Fixed ItMy TownGhazal: The DeadMessage From My Aunt On Her Son's Death AnniversaryPizza With LightbulbzamtoDismantling Grief2. Ya'aburneeRelentlessThirty-Two And In A Different CountryYa'aburneeTahtariq/BurningAnd Still, The SunTerror/MathematicsInside OutGhazal: This HijraGhazal: Back HomeNaming Things3. AhwakLouder Than Hearts and DerbakkehsThe Woman In Our HouseWallada Bint Al-Mustakfi SpeaksMajnunOde To My Non-Arabic LoverMy Non-Arabic Lover And I Take The TrainKhandaq Mon Amour4. AdhanMaqamQudud VariationsThis Country: Ghazal for Abdel Halim HafezGhazal: Samira Tawfi Sings A Love PoemUmm Kulthum SpeaksMessages in the DarkFi Yom Wi Leilazarabi SongPianoCariocaBodyAdhanNotesAcknowledgmentsUS