Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine by Remi Kanazi challenges preconceptions and misconceptions by drawing parallels that are sometimes a bit uncomfortable but immersive and realistic. Kanazi writes poetry that is incredibly beautiful, intensely blunt, and sometimes satisfyingly sarcastic often bringing one to an unexpected realization through the reading. Before the Next Bomb Drops feels current and historical at the same time in its examination of dynamics between peoples, governments, and societies.

Damn, this is really good and intense. Obviously it has a lot to say about the Palestinian/Israeli sitution/conflict/etc., but it has a lot to say about place like Ferguson, and issues like Stop And Frisk. I happened up Remi when I discovered Haymarket Books, and saw a video of him reciting one of these poems and it was powerful. I got no answers to the problems in Palestine - too ignorant to really comment with any intelligence - but man people all over sure have the capacity for too-simple answers and injustice, as well as good.

Damn, this is really good and intense. Obviously it has a lot to say about the Palestinian/Israeli sitution/conflict/etc., but it has a lot to say about place like Ferguson, and issues like Stop And Frisk. I happened up Remi when I discovered Haymarket Books, and saw a video of him reciting one of these poems and it was powerful. I got no answers to the problems in Palestine - too ignorant to really comment with any intelligence - but man people all over sure have the capacity for too-simple answers and injustice, as well as good.