Suheir HammadA woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body
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A woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body. I think that’s a very clever statement. It represents the way in which a woman’s house is often made up of her physical body, just as it had been in some previous homes that she had lived in.
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