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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
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