candelibri's reviews
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Very interesting but could have used a little more exploration into some of the ideas that were presented. Some of them were presented and then just discarded. I also realize the author is a philosopher but the constant positing of questions with no scientific theory behind it was a little exhausting. There is a better way to do it than just consistently throwing out questions and leaving the reader hanging. I could do that. 

I need a physical copy of my own - way too many gems that I need to annotate bc as Americans, we are entering the fight of our lives and this is the literal blueprint. 

Read this read this read this read this read this READ. THIS. 

My heart is in TATTERS. I am in complete disbelief that this was published in 2015. How. HOW?! I would have BET. MONEY. that this was a new release. 

This is the pinnacle of intersectional writing. If I could have shared every poem, I would have. 

“Say their names
Like Newtown children
say their names
al Bayda, Shejaiya
Chicago, Staten Island
say their names
like haunting whispers
say their names”

I am just in awe. Every poem had me (metaphorically) throwing this book - I got it from the library so it was on my iPad - because this is exactly what I want from a collection that prides itself on sociopolitical commentary. Remi Kanazi leaves no stone unturned and spares no group, no topic from his pen. 

Easily one of my favorite collections to date and I am so disappointed that it’s taken me this long to hear about it. 

Wow…this book has had such high reviews from everyone, I was really worried it wouldn’t live up to expectations. So happy to have been proved wrong! Absolutely excellent.

What a freaking BANGER. Read this. Argue with a brick wall. 

There are far too few reviews for this book so while I’d rate this a 4.5, I’m rounding this up so that this has a snowball’s chance of getting through to people. This is such an important and well-written book that really goes after the theory of “originalism” as the method of interpretation for the constitution - how it has undermined “we the people” for decades with the excuse of being used for our betterment, yet that never actually coalesces. 

Also, wow. Just…the amount of cherry picking these men are allowed to get away with in the name of “democracy” is sickening. And God help me, Alito is an absolute piece of garbage, yes but if I could ever learn something about Reagan and be surprised by how absolutely HORRIFIC that human was…?? Nothing I learn about him is shocking anymore, almost everything leads back to that slimeball’s administration. 

Excellent. 

Match this with: 

Tell Me How it Ends - Valeria Luiselli 
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas 
Solito - Javier Zamora

Stunning. These poems are raw - full of grief and love for Yemen. The closest comparison I can make (to compare the tone) is to Yaffa’s ‘Blood Orange.’ 

Highly recommend