As a passionate and pensive child, Grace Halabi, spent her childhood years relishing the majestic mountains and the beguiling ocean of her native Beirut. Her love for poetry is akin to that of her father, a linguist specialist for the deaf and mute and an English professor, and that passion is manifested in her collection of eloquent poetry and prose.
A Renascence of Heart and Soul, profoundly moving with its emotional immediacy, highlights the vitality of her intelligence and the yearnings of her imagination. A Shakespeare, Milton, and Khalil Gibran partisan, her writings reveal a likeness to their wings
Professional Reviews
Brilliant
Poetry today is a lost art that Grace managed to find! she is a brilliant poet and writes from a heart that has been moved and thus moving the hearts of others with her. I highly recommend that you take your time and drink her words. Roy B. Assad Chairman Downtown Development Authority West Palm Beach, FL
Poems on Humanity & Revival of Rebellious Spirits
Halabi is legendary Lebanese, once again. Her poetry is emblematic of a woman's self struggle to ponder hidden truths. In classic Halabi style, her last sanctuary is ultimately resurrected in her mind's eye, emanating, resting and sourced from her soul. She forces you to wonder, to self reflect. Equipped in a self-inflicted war of words, her armed struggle vehemently opposes the imposed wrongs of life, the wrongs of love, the wrongs of destinies. Halabi's pain runs through veins bypassing the heart towards the soul. Her poetry enables the imagination by means of inter-dependent avenues of thought, critical thinking and an innovative integration of reasoning, whereby one finds oneself leveraging from Halabi's 'imagistic' words seeking a truism towards an ultimate inner peace.
Poignantly Moving
'The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary' - Isaiah 60:13 The land of Khalil Gibran produces yet another enigmatic and eloquent poet. You will find yourself suprisingly moved by her poems. Beauty + Brains-Definitely a must read. My favorite was 'A Woman's View'.
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Reviews for "A Renascence of Heart and Soul"
Reviewed by Zachary Farina
4/22/2013
What a pleasant escape from reality. I keep this in my glove compartment, hoping for a reading opportunity on the road.
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