Description: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Here are directives for what to do in an air raid; here are lyrics about the poet’s wife, singing to his children to distract them. Huddled in the dark, Abu Toha remembers his grandfather’s oranges, his daughter’s joy in eating them. Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live. Abu Toha's poems introduce readers to his extended family, some of them no longer with us. This is an urgent, extraordinary, and arrestingly whimsical book. Searing and beautiful, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.
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Color: White
EAN: 9780593803974
ISBN: 9780593803974
Package Dimensions LxWxH: 8.46x5.91x0.67 Inches
Weight: 0.53 Pounds
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Book Title: Forest of Noise : Poems
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Middle Eastern
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 8.2 Oz
Author: Mosab Abu Toha
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
