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Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
108 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2023
About the author
Hedy Habra
15 books18 followersHedy Habra was born in Egypt, and is of Lebanese origin. She has authored four poetry collections, most recently, Or Did You Ever See The Other Side? (Press 53 2023). The Taste of the Earth won the Silver Nautilus Award and honorable mention for the Eric Hoffer Award, and was finalist for the Best Book Award. Her ekphrastic collection, Under Brushstrokes, was finalist for the USA Best Book Award and the International Book Award, and her first collection, Tea in Heliopolis, won the USA Best Book Award and was finalist for the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.
Her book of literary criticism, Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa focuses on the visual in the narrative of the Peruvian Nobel Laureate. A recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she was a twenty-one-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Habra has a BA in Pharmacy. She also has an MA and MFA in English and an MA and Ph.D. in Spanish. She is fluent in five languages and her work appears in The Bitter Oleander, Blue Fifth Review, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Cutthroat, Diode, The Ekphrastic Review, Gargoyle, Indelible, The MacGuffin, MockingHeart Review, Nimrod, Pirene's Fountain, Poet Lore, Slant, Tiferet, World Literature Today and Verse Daily. Habra is also an artist who has a passion for art. She has taught Spanish at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College. Her website is hedyhabra.com
Her book of literary criticism, Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa focuses on the visual in the narrative of the Peruvian Nobel Laureate. A recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she was a twenty-one-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Habra has a BA in Pharmacy. She also has an MA and MFA in English and an MA and Ph.D. in Spanish. She is fluent in five languages and her work appears in The Bitter Oleander, Blue Fifth Review, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Cutthroat, Diode, The Ekphrastic Review, Gargoyle, Indelible, The MacGuffin, MockingHeart Review, Nimrod, Pirene's Fountain, Poet Lore, Slant, Tiferet, World Literature Today and Verse Daily. Habra is also an artist who has a passion for art. She has taught Spanish at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College. Her website is hedyhabra.com
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November 11, 2023
Forgotten forms like pantoums and prose poems brings the reader back home to poetry, with meditations on identity that are more specific to the physical and sensual body and can relate to anyone wondering who they are in different times.
For me, the replies come through most strongly in the steady and lilting music of the poems especially in poems without punctuation, the directness of dialogue, the rare flight of lines, the weaving of places, myths, and the playfulness of poetic forms reminiscent of the language movement in poetry, along with these, the greatest strength of this book is in the titled questions.
For me, the replies come through most strongly in the steady and lilting music of the poems especially in poems without punctuation, the directness of dialogue, the rare flight of lines, the weaving of places, myths, and the playfulness of poetic forms reminiscent of the language movement in poetry, along with these, the greatest strength of this book is in the titled questions.
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