audiences she addresses and her hybrid identity as an Arab-American, [Suhier] Hammad elaborated on how she strove, especially in her latest poetry collection, ZaatarDiva, to forge an Arabic-English slang, a "language that would fit over this grey matter, language that is not purely oriental, or occidental, but accidental."
The poems below, from Hammad's ZaatarDiva (Rattapallax Press, New York), are reproduced by kind permission of the poet.
from Al-Ahram Weekly: 'Not purely oriental, or occidental, but accidental'
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