Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

38 reviews

annelihghh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Medical content, Violence, Classism, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Racism

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

ofbooksandechos's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Grief, and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Child death, Racism, War, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence and Medical content

Ethnic cleansing, white supremacy, crimes against humanity, intergenerational trauma

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

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

sophiestasyna's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

nini23's review

5.0

I was almost finished reading Mosab Abu Toha's impactful book of poetry November 2023 when in disbelief and dismay, read about his unlawful arrest at an Israeli checkpoint as he was trying to leave Gaza with his family. The family's passports and documents were confiscated, he was beaten while in jail and only released under international pressure. Another Palestinian author, Dr Refaat Alareer, has been killed under Israeli's relentless bombing of Gaza, while I was in the middle of reading the anthology edited by him - Gaza Unsilenced.

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.
Free 🇵🇸 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Gun violence, Violence, War, Grief, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Gaslighting

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