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Weaving the lyrics of Frank Ocean's discography, Hazem Fahmy's Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo is a poetic account of four years of shuffling, a catalogue of the constant in-betweenness of being caught in the middle of two places across an ocean. Exploring themes of family, gender, and the attempt to find meaning outside the confines of the state, Fahmy's sophomore collection uses the singer's iconic music and persona as a guidepost to a firmer understanding of the self and the spaces that define it.

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Hazem Fahmy is a writer and critic from Cairo. His debut chapbook, Red//Jild//Prayer, won the 2017 Diode Editions Contest. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2020, AAWW, The Boston Review, and Prairie Schooner. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Mubi Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna. His performances have been featured on Button Poetry and Write About Now. He regularly writes about remakes and other media matters on Medium @hazfahmy.

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