Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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

28 reviews

blairlovesbooks's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Violence, Death, and Child death

bladelikesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

In this book - partially a collection of poems, partially interview answers - Abu Toha tells us of his personal life experience from a young age to present times. 

Abu Toha’s writing is very beautiful and incredibly easy to follow (which i greatly appreciate). His writing show his faily life living in refugee camps in Gaza and the true horror of it, while also showing the beauty of his country, community, and religion. 

I really enjoyed the interview protion of this book as i was able to understang his use of poetry better. Abu Toha’s has lived through so many attacks from Israel that he just cobsiders it a part of his daily routine which is so horrifying and sad. 

I think this collection gives such good insight into daily life in Gaza and generational trauma. If you’re looking to learn more about the Palestinian people’s experienced of life in Gaza, or you’re looking into poetry that’s easy to follow, definitely check out this book:)) 

TWs - Blood; Body Horror; Bombing; Child Death (Graphic); Colonisation; Corpses; Covid; Death; Ethnic Cleansing; Genocide; Grief; Loss Of A Loved One; Medical Content; Medical Trauma; Murder; Violence; War

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Child death, Body horror, Colonisation, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

careinthelibrary's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I thought this was great. The poet wrote in such a sensory way that I felt drawn into the space he created. The smells, sensations, sounds. There's a poem that references teeth chattering that I really felt, for example. Small but mighty. 

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Content Warnings

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

puttingwingsonwords's review

reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

This was my main read for #ReadPalestineWeek. I also finished the Activestills book I was already reading, which I posted about previously, and started Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis.

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear is an impressive poetry collection about life in Palestine, and specifically Gaza.

‘In Gaza, / breathing is a task, / smiling is performing / plastic surgery / on one’s own face / and rising in the morning, / trying to survive / another day, is coming back / from the dead.’

Abu Toha’s poetry zooms in on mundane things and shows how they are twisted in a life under occupation and under siege; but also how they are a source of beauty, however small.

‘Through it all, the strawberries have never stopped growing.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Death

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content

itsinthewords's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

This is a wonderful collection of poetry focused on Abu Tohab's life experience as a child and adult in Gaza. You feel the contrast of the casualness of the violence witnessed there while never losing the sight of how horrific it is. It also showcases how violence doesn't have to be physical. It highlights the resilience forced on the Palestinian people by the circumstance he and others of his generation have been born into, mourning a life they hope to return to but are losing the memory of as time goes on. It's heartbreaking and hopeful and beautiful in its construction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Child death, and War

katharina90's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

There are so many powerful and deeply moving poems in this collection, I won't even try to name them all.

I also really enjoyed the interview with the poet.

"Through it all, the strawberries have never stopped growing."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Medical trauma, Child death, and Colonisation

lettuce_read's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Colonisation, War, and Racism

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, War, Child death, and Violence