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more from suheir who has been keeping busy:
Book Launch for Suheir Hammad’s “breaking poems”
Thursday, October 30, 2008 6-8pm
Bowery Poetry Club, 310 Bowery, New York City $20 (with a copy of breaking poems) $10 w/out
Guests include Paul Beatty, Patricia Smith, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patrick Rosal, Aracelis Girmay, Danny Hoch and others
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
Founded in 2003, Cypher Books, a New York City-based, independent
publisher is proud to present breaking poems, the second collection of
poems 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.
Cypher Books has recently transitioned from being an imprint of
Rattapallax Press to a full-fledged press under the sponsorship of
Bowery Arts & Sciences. This celebration will also serve as a
fundraiser to benefit future publications and programming.
