A review of Siwar Masannat’s ‘cue’
Siwar Masannat is a Jordanian writer, poet, educator, and editor currently based in Milwaukee. cue, Masannat’s second book of poetry, emerges from her engagement with Akram Zaatari’s project Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices, which brought El Madani’s compelling photographs of community members in Saida, Lebanon, to a global audience.
cue
Siwar Masannat
University of Georgia Press 2024, 82 pages, $19.95, ISBN 9780820365978
Bernard Noël (1930-2021): State of Air
Bernard Noël
States of Air
tr. Charles Bernstein
for Viera da Silva
we have just the view
the words of wind
this void the land
here the deepening reverses
self-regard
making us leap into our eyes
always the go-and-come
the viewed and the not viewed
the graphing of not there
on that which is there