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Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet. She is the author of Hide, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior, and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts. Her writing has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, CantoMundo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation. Her work has been installed and screened at universities and galleries such as Stelo Arts, Squeaky Wheel Film and Video Art Center, and the Denver Museum of Art’s Untitled: Artist Takeover. More about this author >
From the publisher:
Carolina Ebeid’s Hide gathers shreds of memory, dream, and the ordinary artifacts of diaspora, as the poet casts a sounding line into her patrilineal and matrilineal histories in Palestine and Cuba. With the hum of cassettes and the glow of projectors, these poems superimpose voice upon voice, image upon image, a here upon a there, to disclose the choral noise inside postmemory.
Hide is a restless innovation of form and multimodal expression breaking open words across Arabic, English, and Spanish to release hidden meanings. Poems trace the letter M back to the Phoenician pictograph of waves, while technological “glitches” are portals that summon oracular voices across the family archive. In swirling “spell” poems, Ebeid conjures Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta, whose Siluetas write the human shape upon the earth.
