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the new Cypher publication
On October 30, 2008, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, Suheir Hammad was joined by Paul Beatty, Roger Bonair-Agard, Michael Cirelli, Aracelis Girmay, Danny Hoch, Patrick Rosal and Patricia Smith and other guests to celebrate the publication of Hammad's new release breaking poems.
the new Cypher publication
On October 30, 2008, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, Suheir Hammad was joined by Paul Beatty, Roger Bonair-Agard, Michael Cirelli, Aracelis Girmay, Danny Hoch, Patrick Rosal and Patricia Smith and other guests to celebrate the publication of Hammad's new release breaking poems.
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October 22, 2008 1:45 pm
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Cypher Books proudly presents the new publication, breaking poems October 2008 >
In Conversation:
Gloria Steinem &
Suheir Hammad
A feminist icon and a rising star on the sexual revolution, the booty-call nineties, and the Superwoman myth.
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Breaking Poems and Breaking Stereotypes:
An Interview with
Suheir
Hammad
October 22, 2008 1:45 pm
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Cypher Books proudly presents the new publication, breaking poems October 2008 >
breaking poems
Suheir Hammad
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Award Winning
breaking poems has been selected as a winner of the 30th annual Before Columbus Foundation/AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS for 2009
Synopsis
Founded in 2005, Cypher Books, a New York City-based, independent publisher is proud
to present breaking poems, the new collection of poetry from Tony
award-winning poet, Suheir Hammad.
Consistent with Cypher's mission to publish innovative and necessary poetry, Hammad
departs from her previous 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.
— Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Song for Night.
"Suheir Hammad's break 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 Forché
"breaking poems takes on the geographic lines that have bound women for ages and marked their bodies, their selves with the lines of unjust notions of property and exploitation. These are poems that inform the dreams of a world that honors woman and honors woman speaking her own voice, breaking the bonds of old worlds with bright moments, bright moments, bright moments."
— Afaa Michael Weaver
Suheir Hammad’s
work has appeared in dozens of anthologies and numerous publications. She was a co-writer and original cast member in the Tony-award winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. An Amherst College Aaron Copeland Fellow, she stars in the movie Salt of the Sea. The author of Born Palestenian, Born Black; Drops of This Story and ZataarDiva, Suheir has won several awards for her writing, including The Audre Lorde Poetry Award, a Van Lier Fellowship, and a Sister of Fire Award.
Reviews
"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.
"Suheir Hammad's break 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 Forché
"breaking poems takes on the geographic lines that have bound women for ages and marked their bodies, their selves with the lines of unjust notions of property and exploitation. These are poems that inform the dreams of a world that honors woman and honors woman speaking her own voice, breaking the bonds of old worlds with bright moments, bright moments, bright moments."
— Afaa Michael Weaver
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About the Author
Suheir Hammad’swork has appeared in dozens of anthologies and numerous publications. She was a co-writer and original cast member in the Tony-award winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. An Amherst College Aaron Copeland Fellow, she stars in the movie Salt of the Sea. The author of Born Palestenian, Born Black; Drops of This Story and ZataarDiva, Suheir has won several awards for her writing, including The Audre Lorde Poetry Award, a Van Lier Fellowship, and a Sister of Fire Award.
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