The Hanging of the Wind by Shurooq Amin

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The Hanging of the Wind

by Shurooq Amin

$14, paper

The first Kuwaiti poet to be nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in the USA for her poem Framboise Fig and Bronze Nude (by DMQ Review in December 2007), Shurooq Amin‘s latest book The Hanging of the Wind is a merging of word with image: a part-metaphysical, part-realistic journey of the Self via Imagism with Ekphrasis.

As a Kuwaiti-born, British-educated writer, Shurooq’s work, both in art and poetry, has consistently been about East versus West, about the struggles inbred with a woman upon her birth, about the feelings of alienation from one’s own culture and values. As an Anglophone poet and writer, a contemporary artist, a certified interior decorator, and a Professor at Kuwait University, with a background in ballet, two licenses in scuba-diving, and four children, her determined goal has been to shift the reader’s/viewer’s perception about what an Arab Muslim woman should be, say, do.

She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and an MA in English Literature. She has given lectures about poetry and writing to a wide and varied audience. Her art, poems, and short stories have appeared in more than 30 international literary journals. Shurooq has received many awards and prizes for her poetry and paintings. She is a member of many literary and artistic societies, including the Kuwait Writer’s Association, Kuwait Arts Association, The Poetry Society (UK), The Poetry Society of America, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (USA), the Certified Interior Decorators International (CID, USA), and others. Her latest poetry book “The Hanging of the Wind” has been published in 2009 by the Finishing Line Press, USA.