Tea in Heliopolis : Poems
Department
Spanish
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
"The poems of Tea in Heliopolis form the story of a family, sometimes tragic, sometimes searingly beautiful, and always exotic, seen through the eyes of a painter. The trope of life, as moments flowing from the paintbrush wielded skillfully by a poet, allows Hedy Habra to capture details redolent of old masters, exquisite and visceral, and creates her remembered world with the wild imagination and color of a Van Gogh. Moving through life in Egypt, to Beirut, then to America, with a kind of post-Newtonian sense of everything happening simultaneously, the chronicle captures the bravery it takes to remember and yet experience a beauty transcendent to pain. This is a remarkable book of poetry." -Diane Wakowski, author of Emerald Ice
Call number in WMU's library
PS3608.A245 T42 2013 (Waldo General Stacks)
ISBN
9781935708766
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Press 53
City
Winston-Salem, NC
Keywords
poetry, Heliopolis, Egypt
Disciplines
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Habra, Hedy, "Tea in Heliopolis : Poems" (2013). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 39.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/39
Comments
Tea in Heliopolis won a 2014 USA Best Book Award in the Poetry: General category from USA Book News. It was also recently named one of five finalists for the 2014 International Poetry Book Award.