BOOK: “Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine” by Remi Kanazi (includes CD) July 7, 2011
The long-awaited release by Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi is a diverse mix of unabashed resistance poems. Laced with searing indictments of occupation, ethnic cleansing, and war, Remi tackles some of the most important issues facing the world today.
Additionally, included in the collection are forty-eight three-line poems for Palestine and a full-length spoken word poetry CD.
–ALI ABUNIMAH, author of One Country and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada
There is more truth, and perhaps finally more news, in Remi Kanazi’s poems than the pages of your daily newspaper.
–CHRIS HEDGES, Pulitzer Prize winner and Nation Institute Senior Fellow
Breathtakingly honest prose…run out and get this collection today.
–CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, former US Congresswoman and Green Party presidential nominee
This book of poems is a shining example of tomorrow’s Palestine.
–RONNIE KASRILS, former South African government minister, anti-apartheid activist, and African National Congress official
A voice which refuses to be silenced.
–JOHN BERGER, novelist and Booker Prize winner
Feel the power and pain of Palestine’s struggle.
–JOHN PILGER, award-winning journalist, journalist, and filmmaker
Back from Gaza, Remi Kanazi’s poems make tears come to my eyes.
–STEPHANE HESSEL, former French ambassador and participant in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A poet with immense power and bravery.
–ELMAZ ABINADER, author, poet, PEN Award winner
Thank You.