‘Committed to Breathing’ emerges with a varied, in-your-face political sensibility, exploding the bourgeois self-indulgence of American culture to give a lambasting critique of its current state of global ultra exploitation and political repression. In the tradition of the resistance literature found in the Black Arts movement of the ‘60s and 70s, Committed Medina’s poetry concerns itself with using language as a liberating tool and a launching pad for dismantling myths of a culture and a dominating social structure. With topics ranging from Amadou Diallo, to the Iraqi War, to OJ Simpson, Medina waxes political on some of the most pressing, complicated current-day concerns incorporating humour, invective and vigour. These poems signify across a complex social-political landscape, both national and international, crying out for an activist poetry that attempts to resist and make sense of a world gone mad. 'Committed to Breathing’ is committed to life, beauty and the defiance of denial and despair.