A review by dhiyanah
Breaking Poems by Suheir Hammad

5.0

In a lot of ways, the collection reads as one poem as a whole - one journey inwards into memory and history and spaces/places. Romanized Arabic words weaved into the English, Suheir Hammad claims the multiplicity that makes her identity whole. Linguistically, the collection breaks borders and the sounds of words - English and Arabic - flow into each other like river streams meeting in a vast ocean. Reading these poems out loud made the music in them real.