Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

28 reviews

hanreadsstuff's review against another edition

5.0

Breathtaking work.

Hard to get through due to the weight of the topic but a deeply important work of art. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Death, and Child death

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

4.5

Beautiful, heartbreaking. I cried pretty much the entire time I read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Hate crime, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, Gore, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

goddessofwhatnot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

The style of poetry is not my cup of tea, may Mosab forgive me:(
I was far more fascinated by his experiences living in Gaza and seeing thru his eyes a bit.
I especially loved the interview at the back where he discusses poetry in general and how it can change how you think and feel about oneself and one’s life 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, and Child death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

biobeetle's review

challenging hopeful informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Colonisation, Xenophobia, and Death

lidia7's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Medical content

zennyreads's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide

readingwithcoffee's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I was able to get this ebook for free because #publishersforpalestine during #readpalestine week. Thank you to the Author, Mosab Abu Toha and Comma Press for participating. 

This was a deeply moving collection, and the interview was very educational as well. I love seeing the author in communication with other poets and writers alive or dead (Audre Lorde, Edward Said for some examples) and just as likely to come up as his specific family members and friends with us or past. Thank you for sharing their stories and so beautifully. I also loved the photos of Gaza in color Especially as the poet wrote about questioning why he always imagines Palestine in black and white. 

I read this also as a part of sharing things about Palestine during Bisan’s call for a global strike between Jan 21st and 28th 2024.  I am confident this poet was held hostage by Israel during this recent siege even if he was eventually released and I encourage people to look it up and into it. Thank you again for these poems I loved them a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Grief, Violence, Colonisation, Death, and Child death

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Medical trauma, Medical content, Child death, Confinement, Islamophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Death, Violence, Dementia, Murder, War, Hate crime, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear is evocative from the title, and it absolutely does not stop throughout the book. Abu Toha takes his readers into the intimate and heart-wrenching moments of a culture, a land, a people under generations of siege. He shows the humanity of the Palestinians of Gaza, a humanity that is often ignored, erased, or disputed in much of mainstream media today. These are not empty numbers or mindless villains dying in the streets of Gaza - they are children, siblings, parents, grandparents, friends, lovers, each their own complex bundle of human spirit. Abu Toha keeps that fact at the forefront of his poems.

I also enjoyed the photographic interlude and the interview with Abu Toha at the end of the book; both provided insight and context to some of the specific details enumerated in his poems. The photos additionally emphasized how real the lives of Palestinians are. 

As I always try to do when I review poetry books, here is a list of my favorite poems from this collection: "Palestine A-Z", "My Grandfather Was A Terrorist",  "Death Before Birth (DBB)", "Displaced", "To My Visa Interviewer", the titular "Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear", and "A Rose Shoulders Up". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Xenophobia, Blood, War, Child death, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

lbelow's review

emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

This is a beautifully moving collection of poetry. Each poem is lyrical and raw, drawing me into the author's life. A must-read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, and Blood