Noufel Bouzeboudja releases new book
The following extract is taken from the Foreword, written by Dr. Boussad Berrichi (University of Canada):
Du Haut de nos Potences is a collection of poems written in an exciting, turbulent, full of meaning style. The quest for the Self, the meaning of life and confidences haven’t the same function, or the same role in a sustained narrative prose than in the concentration of a poem. Noufel Bouzeboudja’s poetry is refined, subversive and liberating. It examines the political, social, economic and cultural situations of the dominated and the dominating communities. It compares the weakness of some with the force of the others and it provides an overview of the complaints brought against the Dominator by the Dominated. The "poetic fight" of Noufel Bouzeboudja aims to expose the suffering caused by political systems in this global village, mainly the misery of some citizens. He tries to believe that personal growth is possible in a world dominated by violence.
Below is a selection from Du Haut de nos Potences:
Come brother
Sit down beside me
Shake that dust from your memory
…
Brother,
No need of their gods:
God-oil, God-dollar
God-power, God-star
…
My mouth filled with
Earth, blood, ashes
But above all with
Syllables and cries, cries, criiiies
Why do you dread
Why are you afraid
Of the shouted or written cries?
…
Crash of misunderstandings
Dangerous are the invisible walls
The invisible walls: FEARS
The concept of Me and the other
Of We and the others
Fear of the other
Of his difference
…
Neoliberal straitjacket
Imposed since many years
Re-colonization under the aegis
Of the transnationals
Leaders in complicity
Under creditors’ mastery
Let Washington or Paris club decide
Retooling the World
Ultimate required criteria: Docility
…
Philosophical Trinity:
Religion, Power and Capital
Planning the contours of the world
Setting the norms and regulating them
...
Plump zealists’ parade
Shaking with a greedy hand
A thick and bushy beard
Sketching smiles
At innocent manipulated teenagers
Ready to burst into thousand pieces
…
Why praying
Or being furious for anything
A book of verses
A Kalashinkov, a rifle
A sword
What’s for?
Blood more and more!
…
I’m with you in peace
No need of words:
Western, non-western immigration
And those electoralist manipulating aims
Such as: veil, minarets, Islamism…
…
Let’s then
Let’s shut the door of hatred
And seal the windows of disgust
Noufel Bouzeboudja
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