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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
11 reviews
dreamer626's review
4.5
Graphic: War, Gun violence, Death, and Child death
robinks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Police brutality
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, and Vomit
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
lifeinsherds's review
5.0
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.
Graphic: Medical content, War, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Colonisation
sarabrogan's review
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Gore, War, Blood, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, and Body horror
Moderate: Grief and Pandemic/Epidemic
ofbooksandechos's review against another edition
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 traumazennyreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide
nini23's review against another edition
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.
Free 🇵🇸
Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Gun violence, Violence, War, Grief, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Gaslighting
readingwithkaitlyn's review
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
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 against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, and Death
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, and Blood