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4.72 AVERAGE
A moving book about war, loss and grief.
"My withered umbilical cord tries to pull me to my sick mother’s bedside before it is cut mid-nowhere."
" Which is heavier on the sand, your feet or your fear?"
" We didn’t hear the F-16s until they finished their strikes. They descended from the inferno. Dante hadn’t mentioned them."
" Go to your bed and, in your sleep, begin to memorize your dream."
" And in my pockets, I put the four directions. My hands are the compass."
It was gut-wrenching, melancholy and somber writing about the war in Palestine and the Gaza strip. The poet did a wonderful job with creative words intermixed with artful writing. A devastating book.
"My withered umbilical cord tries to pull me to my sick mother’s bedside before it is cut mid-nowhere."
" Which is heavier on the sand, your feet or your fear?"
" We didn’t hear the F-16s until they finished their strikes. They descended from the inferno. Dante hadn’t mentioned them."
" Go to your bed and, in your sleep, begin to memorize your dream."
" And in my pockets, I put the four directions. My hands are the compass."
It was gut-wrenching, melancholy and somber writing about the war in Palestine and the Gaza strip. The poet did a wonderful job with creative words intermixed with artful writing. A devastating book.
challenging
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
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medium-paced
I already had the pleasure to discover a bit of this poet's story through his piece in Light in Gaza and I also read some of his poems on his Instagram account so I was very eager to try Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Through his poems and writings, Mosab Abu Toha tells us about the lives of people in Gaza. This book is a perfect embodiment of the concept of art as resistance, showing how people in Gaza still manage to find glimpses of joy in their lives even though these moments are constantly disrupted by bombings and attacks, fear omnipresent in their minds and heart.
In this book, there is hope, anger, grief, pain; pure expressions of the author's feelings, fears and worries. Mosab Abu Toha writes beautifully and I think this is a book that is absolutely necessary to read in order to understand what Palestinians, but more specifically Gazans are going through.
"One function of poetry is to heal the wounds", the author says in an interview that is also transcripted in this collection and I couldn't agree more.
💖 A few favorites from this collection:
- What is Home?
- My Grandfather Was A Terrorist
- Palestinian Painter
- We Love What We Have
- On Gaza Seashore
- The Wounds
- Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Through his poems and writings, Mosab Abu Toha tells us about the lives of people in Gaza. This book is a perfect embodiment of the concept of art as resistance, showing how people in Gaza still manage to find glimpses of joy in their lives even though these moments are constantly disrupted by bombings and attacks, fear omnipresent in their minds and heart.
In this book, there is hope, anger, grief, pain; pure expressions of the author's feelings, fears and worries. Mosab Abu Toha writes beautifully and I think this is a book that is absolutely necessary to read in order to understand what Palestinians, but more specifically Gazans are going through.
"One function of poetry is to heal the wounds", the author says in an interview that is also transcripted in this collection and I couldn't agree more.
💖 A few favorites from this collection:
- What is Home?
- My Grandfather Was A Terrorist
- Palestinian Painter
- We Love What We Have
- On Gaza Seashore
- The Wounds
- Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
upsetting contrast between the sounds and life of nature and the sky and the constant droning of incoming bombs, really well written
While I enjoyed some of the poems, I couldn’t keep reading it. Poetry is not my preferred genre and I had to return the book to the library.
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced