breaking poems
Suheir Hammad
"Incantatory and powerful, Suheir Hammad's voice compels you in these new poems
to enact a beautiful revolution, a retrieval from the very heart of loss. Everything
falls on the off beat, wa love, wa body, wa life, wa freedom."
Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Song for Night. |
ZaatarDiva
Suheir Hammad
ZaatarDiva summons through moments of lyrical insight and urbane wit,
again and again, and before we know what has happened, we are hooked. Here's a poetry
that urges a wholeness - a crossing of borders - as the personal is woven into the
public, whereby a 'prodigal daughter' possesses her own knowing voice. Each poem
in ZaatarDiva is heart-driven by the urgent, raw orality of need. And, there is
a glistening barb in each turn of phrase - a lure of quicksilver accuracy."
Yusef Komunyakaa |
Tarnish and Masquerade
Roger Bonair-Agard
"These sunwashed revelations -- this lilting, uproarious, precise gospel -- brings
so much to the table that the reader is nearly overwhelmed. Roger Bonair-Agard is
his own revolution, a deft purveyor of unflinching politics, stark sensuality and
the relentless drum of the island home that beckons from every page. There is simply
no resisting these stanzas, absolutely no way to turn away from what they will do
to you."
Patricia Smith |
