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- Title Breaking Poems
- Author Suheir Hammad
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 62
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cypher Books
- Date 2008-12
- ISBN 9780981913124 / 0981913121
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5 x 0.3 in (22.35 x 12.70 x 0.76 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Palestine, Palestinian Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011276179
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Shipping from Japan via registered mail.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…
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