Before the Next Bomb Drops
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Before the Next Bomb Drops

Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Before the Next Bomb Drops

Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

About this book

"A beautiful but urgent clarion call for freedom, justice, and resistance in every pocket of the world, from occupied Palestine to gentrified Brooklyn" (Marc Lamont Hill, academic and activist). we are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the iron / coloring the soil / we cannot / be erased
—from "Refugee" Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. He captures the Palestinian people's stubborn refusal to be erased, gives voice to the ongoing struggle for liberation, and explores the meaning of international solidarity. In this latest collection, Kanazi expands his focus outside the sphere of Palestine and presents pieces examining racism in America, police brutality, US militarism at home and wars abroad, conflict voyeurism, Islamophobia, and a range of other issues. "His rhymes and rhythms, filled with sharp wit, irony and deep empathy, are a great joy to read even as they tackle some of the most urgent political struggles of our day." —Ali Abunimah, author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine

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Normalize This!
NorĀ·malĀ·iĀ·zaĀ·tion applies to relationships that convey
a misleading or deceptive image of normalcy, symmetry
or parity, despite a patently abnormal and asymmetric
relationship of colonial oppression and apartheid.
—Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel
nothing
is normal
about occupation
nothing normal about
apartheid, ethnic cleansing
siege, blockade, Israeli-only roads
the bombing of water wells, schools
mosques, and UN buildings
nothing normal
about putting a civilian
population on a diet
paying nonindigenous
colonizers
to occupy land
that is already inhabited
rewriting the Nakba
with each stolen childhood
trying to desensitize the bullet holes
and claw marks put into the bodies
of Bassem Abu Rahme and Rachel Corrie
no
I don’t want to normalize with you
I don’t want to hug, have coffee
talk it out, break bread
sit around the campfire
eat s’mores and gush about
how we’re all the same
I don’t want to share the stage
cowrite a poem
submit to your antholo...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Nakba
  4. Lit Up
  5. Out of Season
  6. Until It Isn’t
  7. Nothing to Worry About
  8. An Empty Vessel
  9. This Poem Will Not End Apartheid
  10. A Distraction
  11. #NoLessWorthy
  12. Dislocation
  13. Hebron
  14. Normalize This!
  15. Anything But Iraq
  16. Tree-Lined Empire
  17. An Open Letter to Campus Zionist Groups and University Chancellors
  18. This Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings
  19. #WhatRemains
  20. Solidarity
  21. Appetite for Appropriation
  22. Refugee
  23. Refuse
  24. Sumoud
  25. Say Their Names
  26. #InsideOut
  27. Mourning in Cairo
  28. Goldstone
  29. Tone It Down
  30. Peace Process
  31. The Grin behind the Tears
  32. Bobby
  33. A Closing Bow
  34. Layover in Palestine
  35. Credits