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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza<\/em>, Mosab Abu Toha
\nCity Lights Books<\/a>, 2022
\nISBN 9780872868601<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eman Quotah<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nearly 30 years ago, I visited Gaza for half a day. I was part of an annual \u201cpeace studies mission\u201d that my U.S. college and two neighboring schools hosted to allow a group of students to travel to and study a \u201cconflict zone.\u201d Previous \u201cmissions\u201d had gone to Los Angeles and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Gaza was not on our official itinerary, which included locations in Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Then, an American relief worker offered to take a subgroup of students to Gaza on her weekly trip there. Three of us went. As we drove to Gaza City, the smooth freeways of Israel gave way to potholes and ruts. We could see the beach from the road.<\/p>\n

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear<\/em> is available from City Lights<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, Gaza is perhaps more notorious to the world beyond its borders than it was then, before Hamas\u2019 takeover and Israel\u2019s ongoing siege, which began in 2007. At the same time, Gaza is also possibly more forgotten, only pricking the global consciousness and conscience every few years, as Chris Doyle noted in Arab News<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, writing in English in his debut collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza<\/em>, is well aware of the outsider\u2019s intermittent and unreliable gaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cGazans have to show the world that they cannot be defeated,\u201d he tells American poet Ammiel Alcalay in the interview included in the book.<\/p>\n

The poems in Things You May Find<\/em> convey both the difficulty Gazans face and their undying determination. Abu Toha roots his poetry in everyday experiences of hardship and violence \u2014 so many mentions of drones and helicopters and F-16s and gunshots and bombings and explosions that the reader instinctually wants to cover her ears. The grandchild of refugees forced from Jaffa during the Nakba in 1948, he writes about a Gaza that is simultaneously the only home he knows and a symbol of everything the Abu Toha family has lost.<\/p>\n

The collection begins with the long poem \u201cPalestine A\u2013Z,\u201d a list of entries that, with cheeky solemnity, refuses to catalog Palestine for an English-speaking world that largely erases it.<\/p>\n

B is \u201cA book that doesn\u2019t mention my language or my country, and has maps of every place except for my birthplace, as if I were an illegitimate child on Mother Earth.\/\/Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n

And G: \u201cHow are you, Mosab? I\u2019m good. I hate this word. It has no meaning to me. Your English is good, Mosab! Thanks.\/\/When I was asked to fill out a form for my U.S. J-1 visa application, my country, Palestine, was not on the list. But lucky for me, my gender was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abu Toha founded the Edward Said Library<\/a>, Gaza\u2019s first English-language library, after saving an anthology of American literature from the rubble of his bombed university in 2014. Documenting life in Gaza is a Gordian knot throughout his collection. The poet\u2019s need to record the details of daily living is at war with the life the siege forces him to live, one dominated by unending fear and loss of life. His need to tell the story of his people battles with the pictures of them others see. In \u201cMy Grandfather Was a Terrorist,\u201d Abu Toha writes,<\/p>\n

My grandfather was a terrorist\u2014
\nHe departed his house, leaving it for the coming guests,<\/p>\n

left some water on the table, his best,
\nlest the guests die of thirst after their conquest.<\/p>\n

Here is one rhetorical reality, Abu Toha seems to say, and here is another. \u201cA poem is not just words placed on a line. It\u2019s a cloth,\u201d he writes. \u201cMahmoud Darwish wanted to build his home, his exile, from all the words in the world.\u201d In \u201cFlying Poem,\u201d words are hidden in a drawer and then set free to be sung to \u201cpassing clouds\u201d by migratory birds. In \u201cCold Sweat,\u201d the poet sees the stars \u201cthrough a bullet hole in the ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Midway through the collection, Abu Toha supplements his words with photos in an \u201cInterlude\u201d whose captions serve as tiny poems, such as:<\/p>\n

Everything gets tied in Gaza\u2019s noose.
\nWhen a shower of stones isn\u2019t enough, a sky of stones might be.
\nThe scent of coffee still hangs in the air. But where is the kitchen?
\nThrough it all, the strawberries have never stopped growing.<\/p>\n

In “Discoveries,” we imagine the harshness of life grinds down Gaza’s children:<\/p>\n

We are fine, even though we don\u2019t feel well.
\nGaza is okay, although it has nothing to make her feel that way. In Gaza, the sun shines and the moon flirts with the leaves of the orange trees;
\nHowever, Gaza\u2019s people come and go empty-handed:
\nNo good news to give to their children,
\nno candy to sweeten their pale mouths,
\nand no light to read by.<\/p>\n

These fragments of life interrupted, of death that never departs, have a powerful impact, while putting the reader off-kilter, as though the poet is saying, \u201cMy language and photos allow you to see, but do you fully understand?\u201d At the same time, Abu Toha has a knack for putting readers in the shoes of Gazans so subtly one might hardly notice, as when he writes of surviving an Israeli bombing that kills an entire family: \u201cWe were safe, but our hearts\/still ache.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Mohammed El-Kurd, another young Palestinian poet with a recent collection<\/a> published in the United States, writing in English brings Abu Toha a different audience than that of Palestinians writing in Arabic, whether in previous generations or today. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Abu Toha said, \u201cWhen I write in English, I think of a western listener, as I speak directly to them to tell them what is going on here in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

That awareness of audience lies under the surface of Abu Toha\u2019s poems and sometimes gives his lines an edge they might not have in Arabic, a language in which Palestine exists in a way that it does not in English. Darwish wrote to a largely sympathetic though often negligent Arabic-speaking world. Poets like Abu Toha and El-Kurd write to a world that may automatically categorize their work as provocative.<\/p>\n

For example, reading through Abu Toha\u2019s Twitter feed while writing this review, I encountered quite a few tweets whose images were blocked because of potential \u201csensitive content.\u201d The images at issue included the Palestine Book Awards logo<\/a> and a photo of Abu Toha\u2019s adorable young daughter in a strawberry field.<\/p>\n

Stop being provocative by insisting on your existence, Twitter and many others are saying. In one poem, a disembodied voice asks Abu Toha \u201cto stop writing heavy poems.\u201d He responds, \u201cThat voice takes away my voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are we, those who can only visit Gaza through Abu Toha\u2019s words, listening? Upon finishing this powerful collection, will we speak up for Gaza\u2019s liberation so Gazans may be free to live better lives and poets like Abu Toha can write about a new reality?<\/p>\n

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