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Title	:	Born Palestinian, Born Black: The Gaza Suite
Author	:	Suheir Hammad
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 96 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2010 by UpSet Press (first published October 1996)
Categories	:	Poetry. Nonfiction. Race

Born Palestinian, Born Black: The Gaza Suite

Suheir Hammad

Paperback | Pages: 96 pages

Rating: 4.35 | 311 Users | 26 Reviews

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Suheir Hammad has given us a collection of poems that have their roots in a land near the edge of the sea. Here is the voice of one woman who has not forgotten the plight of her people. Born Black is about culture, conflict, and consciousness.

UpSet Press has restored to print Suheir Hammad's first book of poems, Born Palestinian, Born Black, originally published by Harlem River Press in 1996. The new edition is augmented with a new author's preface, and new poems, under the heading, The Gaza Suite, as well as a new publisher's note by Zohra Saed, an introduction by Marco Villalobos, and an afterword by Kazim Ali.

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Original Title:	Born Palestinian, Born Black
ISBN:	097601422X (ISBN13: 9780976014225)
Edition Language:	English

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Good, though having read fabulous Zaatardiva, I appreciate the maturity she grew into, both in content and style.

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Suheir Hammad is an upright voice for the dispossessed, in this collection Hammad offers us her world, it is raw, urban and it is powerful. She has the poetic voice of an activist, a feminist and a woman wounded by an unfair world. Her words are her strength against a struggle few of us know so intimately. For the time we spend within the pages of this book we have the honor of marching alongside Ms. Hammad as she confronts the voiceless atrocities that have moved her. This unique perspective in

Suheir Hammad is someone who crossed my path quite by accident in a bookstore in the mid-1990s. There I espied her book of poems, "Born Palestinian, Born Black." I glanced at some of the poems and liked their content. Then several years elapsed before Suheir Hammad came to the fore of consciousness again. And that was when I saw her on CSPAN as part of a forum. Now that I've just finished reading this book of poems, I feel that I have been witness to a conscious and prophetic voice speaking in

a painful but beautiful read.So much seen, felt, endured. Thanks for sharing.

more like 2 1/2 stars!

i wish i woulda,woulda caught you on the train on an empty car into flatbushwoulda reached into the conductor's boothgrabbed an intifada stone and crushed your skullto dig up your thoughts and burn them up