A review of Siwar Masannat’s ‘cue’
From left to right: the cover of “cue,” Siwar Masannat.
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
Toward a poetry and poetics of the Americas (34)
Diocelina Restrepo, 'What the Great Armadillo Said in Dreams to Me'
Narrated by Diocelina Restrepo, Yukpa People, Sokorpá, Colombia
Assembled and translated by Javier Taboada after Anne Goletz’s research
From Rothenberg and Taboada, the big book of the Americas, now in progress
“our food, the worm
“is among you
“we suffer, for our land has been burned