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genuinely do not know what to say.
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.
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Absolutely essential reading. Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has such emotionally devastating poetry while having such a love and adoration for his country and his people. It is not a poetry collection that can be read easily all of the time. It is emotional and covers the poet's personal experience in war and the people he's seen murdered. Abu Toha is not the first Palestinian poet I've read, and yet this has become one of my favorite poetry books. I would also recommend reading (if you haven't yet) anything by Mahmoud Darwish or "Birthright" by George Abraham.
The interview at the end is also not to be skipped. He has some amazing insights to his views of poetry and what the poetic form means to language and memory.
The interview at the end is also not to be skipped. He has some amazing insights to his views of poetry and what the poetic form means to language and memory.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Colonisation
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He asks, “Do you know why I was born?”
“To live for some years and die.”
masterful, provocative, and explosive in a quiet might.
When you are in danger, you imagine yourself to be the only target on planet Earth.
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Don't ever be surprised
to see a rose shoulder up
among the ruins of the house:
This is how we survived.
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challenging
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“I want to drown myself in the silence of absence,
to fill my pockets with poems
and throw myself in a lazy river.”