Poetry. In BREAKING POEMS Suheir Hammad departs from her previous poetry books with a bold and explosive style to do what the best poets have alway...
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Nov 04, 2008
Barbara
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I just started reading Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems yesterday evening, and already, it’s so great to witness all of this breaking. Her syntax is broken, her lines are clipped, and her poems are bombardments of images and words, demonstrations of brokenness and piecing together of selves, of languages, histories, and geographies. I am totally loving that in her poems, it’s no longer necessary to speak in argument convincing sentences; the fact of her being, speaking, the fact of her family’s, h
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Dec 26, 2009
Nijla
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these poems had an addictive affect on me...like i couldn't stop reading them, even when i tried to put the book down. it's odd because unlike fiction, i usually read poetry books in several sittings... the musicality of suheir's language, and the merging of arabic, really pulled me in.
Jul 09, 2009
K
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A-FREAKING-MAZING -- if you only read this book once, you won't get the depth. You've gotta sit with this sistah for a while and read and read through and read under until your mind "breaks" or you have a break through. Seriously, this is not poetry for the weak. :-) LOVE IT.
Aug 07, 2010
Rushay
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Powerful words from a amazing artist I was fortunate to receive a autographed copy from Suheir.her words reflect on powerful heartfelt tragedy and joy in her life
Jan 04, 2009
Leah
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Suheir is a genius. She wrote a new language that is like nothing you ever saw before. Go buy this shit before it sells out.
Aug 03, 2009
Steven
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As always, Hammad brings it. She has a great eye for politics, and the soul of Palestine is evident in her poetry.
Dec 09, 2008
Reginald
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Suheir is the real deal...A poet's poet...Every time I read (or hear) her words I swear the sky opens up a bit wider, and the sun shines a hell of a lot brighter...There's no darkness to or in her words...She's one of the best poets writing today....and she's only getting better & better!...She's my girl!
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