Reviews - October 2024

Excavating intimacies

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