A review by abbie_
Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine by Remi Kanazi

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Brutal, spare, unflinching and unapologetic about Kanazi’s right to be angry about the brutalities suffered by his people in Palestine. I can and cannot believe that people come up to him after his shows and tell him he should lighten it up, be less aggressive when his family members are being killed. Why are white people so intent on tone policing the grief of people of colour, it’s disgusting. I can only imagine how powerful these short, sharp poems would be spoken aloud by the author. 

Published in 2015, another brilliant collection for anyone who seems to think that Palestine’s history of tragedy began on 7th October 2023. Anyone wilfully ignoring history at this point is doing untold damage. 
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