Difficult is unmistakably a book of the present moment—the present tense and everyday life dominate the poems. Yet Zeinati’s voice and vision bear all the markers of hard-earned insights, of someone who has arrived at them through the clarity of hindsight and the sanity of distance. Given this, a remarkable achievement of these poems is their refusal to be singular in any way—not tonally, topically, or even poetically. Like the world they look at, these poems are teeming with surprise and variation. They are at times unsettling and startling, at others whimsical and dreamy. And they are, without exception, reliable and endearing.”Hayan Charara, author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit Rewa Zeinati is an award-winning poet, essayist, educator, and copywriter. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Bullets & Orchids (Corrupt Press, 2013) and the founding editor of Sukoon magazine. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from the American University of Beirut and an M.F.A from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis. Her poems, essays, and translations have been published in various literary journals and anthologies including Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Natural Bridge, The Common, Best Small Fictions, discontent, Mizna, The Spectacle, The Markaz Review, AAWW, New England Review, among others. PaperbackDiode Editions
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