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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
44 reviews
lizzy_elaineee's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Genocide, and Colonisation
Moderate: Genocide, Islamophobia, War, Colonisation, Medical trauma, and Death
nini23's review
5.0
This genocide is happening before our very eyes. As of today, the death toll is above 25,000 with the majority women and children. There are still others unaccounted for buried under rubble. Famine, cold, preventable diseases and repeated displacement not to mention ongoing bombardment and now straight-up shootings by Israeli soldiers are a lethal threat to the Palestinian survivors.
These Gaza poems allow a vulnerable window glimpse into the experience of living under continuous Israeli control and siege prior to this current massacre. The afterword interview with Abu Toha is also illuminating.
I join countless others around the world raising our voices: Ceasefire! Stop impeding delivery of humanitarian aid.
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Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Gun violence, Violence, War, Grief, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Gaslighting
readingwithcoffee's review
5.0
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.
Moderate: War, Grief, Violence, Colonisation, Death, and Child death
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
4.0
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
5.0
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".
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
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, and Death
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, and Blood
jayisreading's review
4.75
While I didn't think there was anything revolutionary or interesting happening when it came to form and structure, I thought the delivery of these poems were powerful, with many of them remaining with you pages after you finish reading them. (Somewhat of an aside, but I think this is a fantastic collection for novice readers of poetry.)
As Abu Toha beautifully writes in the interlude, "Through it all, the strawberries have never stopped growing." In spite of everything, the heart of Palestine continues beating.
Some favorites: "Palestine A–Z," "What Is Home?," "My Grandfather Was a Terrorist," "Sobbing Without Sound," "A Litany for 'One Land'," "Desert and Exile," "Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, and Theodor Adorno in Gaza," "Displaced," "To My Visa Interviewer," and "Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear"
Note: I would like to thank the publisher for making this collection free for readers to download.
Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Colonisation, War, and Genocide
blairlovesbooks's review
5.0
Graphic: War
Moderate: Violence, Death, and Child death
shannon_magee's review
4.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Grief, Death, War, and Blood
cheyison's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Violence, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and War