A review by pangnaolin
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

Rifqa was an incredibly beautiful collection of poetry, so perfectly named and encapsulated by the story of the wonderful, powerful woman herself. It's not my usual style of poetry, but I loved it all the same-- especially the ones with more blunt and intense styles-- and it was so perfectly needed to have a space to sit with all of the emotions we hold around Palestine and its people, especially now. I am always thinking of and feeling these losses, but his words brought new thoughts and an opportunity for me to develop my own and let them sit. I adored the imagery, and the way he wove stories through each poem and throughout several, and I couldn't recommend it more.