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This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty (40 Sonnets)
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Product Details
Author:
Zeina Hashem Beck
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group (March 2, 2027)
Imprint:
Penguin Books
Release Date:
March 2, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780143139133
ISBN-10:
0143139134
Weight:
5.77oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 0.2813"
File:
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Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$20.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Series:
Penguin Poets
Case Pack:
24
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$15.40
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
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Yes
Overview
From the “undeniable, unforgettable” (Kaveh Akbar) Zeina Hashem Beck, a profound new collection of palindromic sonnets that explore the division and correspondence between selves and alternate realities experienced in exile
In This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty, Zeina Hashem Beck once again reinvents the sonnet—this time not as a Shakespearean love poem or a Petrarchan ode, but as a post-colonial vehicle of the immigrant experience. Her chosen form, the palindromic sonnet, bends language to resist the concept of a singular reality, of one world; because for many immigrants, there exist multiple realities: the world where they now live, and the world they left behind. Beck connects these experiences of trial and upheaval with her own move from Lebanon to California, but also with the reinvention of the body in middle age, with motherhood, and with the transformative power of love. From cinema to sea turtles, from San Francisco to Beirut, this collection calls out a world that doesn’t make space for multiple realities, and yet simultaneously creates a world within itself which makes that existence possible.
In This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty, Zeina Hashem Beck once again reinvents the sonnet—this time not as a Shakespearean love poem or a Petrarchan ode, but as a post-colonial vehicle of the immigrant experience. Her chosen form, the palindromic sonnet, bends language to resist the concept of a singular reality, of one world; because for many immigrants, there exist multiple realities: the world where they now live, and the world they left behind. Beck connects these experiences of trial and upheaval with her own move from Lebanon to California, but also with the reinvention of the body in middle age, with motherhood, and with the transformative power of love. From cinema to sea turtles, from San Francisco to Beirut, this collection calls out a world that doesn’t make space for multiple realities, and yet simultaneously creates a world within itself which makes that existence possible.
