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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
3 reviews
robinks's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
This is such a powerful collection of poetry. So many of the images and sentences illuminated the brutality of daily life for Abu Toha. The interview at the end of the collection also helped provide historical/political context for the works, which is helpful for those who may not know about Gaza and Palestine. I found this collection through following Abu Toha on Instagram.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Police brutality
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, and Vomit
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
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
cleansetolovers's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This debut collection absolutely blew me away. Toha’s gift for verse is unparalleled. It is a sad, beautiful, horrifying, wonderful look at his life in Gaza, first, as a child and then a father. I’m gonna be thinking about these pieces for a long time, and the interview at the end really helped tie the poetry together. I am normally not much of a poetry person, but this really is causing me to reevaluate my relationship to the genre. A true must read during these horrifying times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Death, and Genocide
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