{"id":6709,"date":"2009-02-18T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2009-02-18T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:15:28","slug":"suheir-hammad-a-poet-whose-work-you-should-probably-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6709","title":{"rendered":"Suheir Hammad, A Poet Whose Work You Should Probably Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given some of the discussion generated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/17\/breaking-the-seals\/#comment-353476\">Jake&#8217;s comment<\/a> on David&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/17\/breaking-the-seals\/\">Breaking The Seals<\/a> post, I thought people here might be interested to know about (if you don&#8217;t already) the work of Palestinian poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suheirhammad.com\/\">Suheir Hammad<\/a>. I wrote about her second book of poetry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ZaatarDiva-Suheir-Hammad\/dp\/0981913105\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1234987931&#038;sr=8-2\"><em>Zaatar Diva<\/em><\/a>, and a little bit about her first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0863162444\/qid=1137614709\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-1999967-4944644?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\"><i>Born Palestinian, Born Black<\/i><\/a> on my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/itsallconnected.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/20\/suheir-hammad\u2019s-zaatardiva-and-kazim-ali\u2019s-the-far-mosque\/\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a review of two books of poetry, but some of what it says is germane to what we are talking about here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given some of the discussion generated by Jake&#8217;s comment on David&#8217;s Breaking The Seals post, I thought people here might be interested to know about (if you don&#8217;t already) the work of Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad. I wrote about her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40,44,52,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-international-issues","category-jews-and-judaism","category-literature","category-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}