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I've read many books on Gaza and the Palestinian people but poetry always cuts through and touches the heart. I highly recommend this for anyone exploring the history and life of these beautiful people.
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I got to listen to several poets and the author read the entire book aloud and the language used is simply hauntingly beautiful. In the face of atrocity and genocide he finds ways to write the lose into poetry to spread the word outside of Palestine what is going on. This book is amazing and I will be revisiting it. I encourage everyone to read this work, it is gut wrenching, and sad but it is so very beautiful too. Please read this. It is an amazing read.
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Gripping. I especially loved the interview segment in the end of the book
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Heartbreaking and enlightening. Important reading for anyone trying to understand Palestine.
I don't read a lot of poetry, but when I do I generally expect to find perspectives and approaches that seek out the nuance and beauty in life. What a stark contrast to the brutal and up front poetry of Abu Tosa. There is no gentleness, no beauty in the descriptions of limbs torn off, shrapnel piercing bodies, death and destruction of innocent children. What an incredible, gut-wrenching book of poetry.
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Heartbreaking but a beautifully written collection of poems. There is an interesting interview with Mosab Abu Toha at the end of the book by Ammiel Alcalay which is enlightening. Mosab Abu Toha has recently been in the news and I felt I had to read his poems.
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I read this the day after the 2024 presidential election. I thought a lot about how the author is around my own age and, living in the same world as me, experienced so many hardships and horrors that I can only imagine. Like many people, I've been horrified by the ongoing genocide and my government's complicity in it, but books like this remind me that the Palestinian struggle for liberation has been happening for decades. It's books like these that motivate me toward solidarity.
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
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Minor: Pregnancy
This was a raw and brutal read. If you think what the people in Gaza experienced started after 7.10, go read some books! I could only imagine the level of fear you had to go through every day in your life. And that growing old is considered an achievement when it should be a human right. #readpalestineweek #freepalestine