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Forest of Noise
Forest of Noise: Poems | Mosab Abu Toha
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"A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza (…more)
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I included Toha‘s biography in this pic so people realize that when I say these poems are brutal, they get a sense of how brutal I mean.

It seems inappropriate to judge the overall style, or lack thereof, of this collection. These are not meant to simply be poems. They are documents. Rapid fire snapshots of war-torn lives.

These poems don‘t need to prove themselves; they only need to be.

BC_Dittemore I have, however, included below a couple of, not only my favorite but, the collection‘s strongest pieces. 2w
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Poem Title:
TRUE OR FALSE: A TEST BY A GAZAN CHILD