"Zeina Hashem Beck crafts a multifaceted portrait of the people and the streets of Beirut. Part love-letter, part elegy, Hashem Becks debut collection keeps the city from becoming a shadow of a memory, / the memory of a shadow for poet and reader both, offering us instead labyrinths / in which we get lost on purpose. This collection is as vibrant and sensitive as its subject-the city that understands / not being tired of being. Join me in an enthusiastic welcome for a compelling new voice in Anglophone poetry."—John Hennessy