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katelarsenkeys's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
A powerful and provocative poetry collection about love and loss, the relentlessness of dislocation and prejudice, and the everydayness of trauma and grief, through the lens of the Arab-Australian experience
cabeswaters's review
challenging
reflective
In the last human hour, I start to build a poem as large and
Weird as love. It cannot save us and still I am rushing
To usher every spirit to live within, to
To usher every spirit to live within, to
Join in, to laugh, sweetly, at all that has transpired.
jillwoodfield's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
A good collection. My first time reading Sakr’s poetry and I enjoyed it.
sabsey's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
5.0
Did you know violins can shake the earth? Such sweet vessels, tiny planetary throats. I was sent an orchestra. They made music a sorrow, a soaring that shivered the dirt. I followed the notes to a barbarism. The composer said he created the beautiful hour as a space to think about war, and I heard my mother's name, a dark cascade of her, I saw again the clamour behind her manner, her harrowed glamour; I am claiming all of it now not as a violence, but as an inevitability, always justifiable.
5. Sakr's use of metaphor & language is absolutely unreal.
5. Sakr's use of metaphor & language is absolutely unreal.
nate_gray's review
emotional
reflective
2.0
Nothing about this poetry collection was necessarily bad, I just didn't feel anything while reading. perhaps i wasn't the target audience for this book and maybe I just don't understand Omar's perspective, but i didn't gain a whole lot from this book besides two or three good poems.
kephalophoroi's review
medium-paced
5.0
my favorite poet !!! i've been waiting for this book since it was announced and it was 100% worth it it's so good