News at Eleven: This poetry collection reads like an interrupted tour

of the Holy Land. [Rachel] Zolf doesn't tell you, but I will: according to the Israeli human rights organization B'tselem, the neighbor procedure of the book's title is a practice in which the Israeli military "use[s] Palestinian civilians to order other Palestinians to leave their houses to be arrested." This collection describes, obsessively and elliptically, the procedures of military occupation in Israel/Palestine. The poems here speak sometimes in occupation's own splintered language; at other times they repeat the blank spaces also produced by violence.

from Zeek: "The Family Playing Host to the Missile": A Review of Rachel Zolf's "Neighbour Procedure"

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