Before the Next Bomb Drops

Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

Remi Kanazi

• Editorial: Haymarket Books
• Año: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781608465255
• Categoría: Literatur
• Categoría: Poesie des Nahen Ostens

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.

Normalize This!

Nor·mal·i·za·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...