A review by samisal
Zaatardiva by Suheir Hammad

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

These poems do something that I am always striving for in my own writing, which is to present ideas in their clearest and gentlest and most musical form. This work is meant to be heard but on the page it holds up too. It’s like a collection of love letters all written on scrap papers between moments with the people you love. There’s a lot in the poetics that I think more recent poetry is always trying to achieve but Suheir Hammad does it very effortlessly. One of my favorite poetry reads of the year.