false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225209484m/5289373.jpg 5289373 1 In BREAKING POEMS Suheir Hammad departs from her previous poetry books with a bold and explosive style to do what the best poets have always done: create a new language. Using "break" as a trigger for every poem, Hammad destructs, constructs, and reconstructs the English language for us to hear the sound of a breath, a woman's body, a land, a culture, falling apart, broken, and put back together again. "Suheir Hammad's BREAKING POEMS introduces English to an Arabic vernacular that startles into being an altogether new language, bridging the archipelago of a Palestine under siege to the diaspora and beyond, breaking through convention, breaking open locks on mind and heart, breaking into a music inspired by the Coltranes, Sun Ra and free jazz, Lee Scratch Perry and Ravi Shankar, a music that is at once a joyous celebration of survival and a poignant cri de Coeur that cannot be ignored and that Mahmoud Darwish should have lived to see. This is a poetry written for people who have endured the winds of hurricanes and invasions. What wisdom, energy, joy and poignancy Hammad brings to the page--for all of this, and for teaching me a new speaking, I give her my thanks"--Carolyn Forche. 5356785 2008 breaking poems total:30|5:19|4:7|3:3|2:1|1:0| 30 134 75 5 4 0 false false Tue Oct 28 08:58:21 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 04 08:33:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 09 11:20:39 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 11:21:56 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 23:24:30 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 23:25:03 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 10:58:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 10:58:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Dec 09 14:22:58 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 14:52:39 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 14:22:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 10:15:50 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 10:15:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 19:28:43 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:28:43 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 11:39:47 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 11:39:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 09:40:53 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 09:40:53 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 13:43:11 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 13:43:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 01:04:43 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 01:06:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 21:37:50 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 21:37:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 08:23:57 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 08:23:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 17:12:50 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 17:12:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 11:30:20 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 11:30:20 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 07:00:20 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 07:00:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 14:12:59 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 14:12:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 14:04:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 14:04:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 16 12:38:14 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 12:38:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 03 11:43:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:43:25 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5289373