Rifqa
Ratings14
Average rating4.3
grandmaa lucky refugee grew vines of roses around the house;this time the roses had thornsjust in case.
Rifqa
3rd March 2024:
Rifqa is a poetry collection where if you read with the intention to connect and understand the verses gently guide you through the eyes of the people mentioned in them. From the chants of revolution outside a hospital, to the farewell of Palestine's Jasmine, each word is heavier than a mountain.
Final Rating: 5/5
This was beautiful, and especially poignant and painful to read now, given that the need for Palestinian liberation has only increased. Only rating it 4/5 because I'm not the most confident poetry reader? But that's a me issue, not an El-Kurd issue! Would recommend to anyone educating themselves about Palestine.
“In Palestine death is sudden, instant, constant, happens in between breaths.”
This was such a beautiful and memorable collection of poetry written by Mohammed El-Kurd narrating his experiences growing up living under the Israeli government's army. While, I have only recently discovered and began to understand the true beauty that is poetry, I believe this has to be one of the best that I have read. Rifqa makes you feel such strong emotions and I highly recommend everyone to take the time and pick this up.
I am forever praying for a free Palestine.
I was skeptic about his, cause why would i read poems about Palestine in English, but some really do work beautifully. I'm also not a fan of the modernist scrambled syntax in poetry but if there's a place to use them to provoke a feeling of desiccated and attacked History, it's here. I still feel this book is more guided towards English speakers to learn the realities of the Palestinian struggle, than an Arab who grew up with its repercussions, still very much recommend.