Forest of Noise: Poems

Forest of Noise: PoemsA 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,

intergenerational curses

she has seven weeks to find the perfect boyfriend to rub in their faces at the big

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Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light

Told by everyday people to Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan – a Black artist and a White academic who met through their shared passion for anti-segregation work – the stories paint a rich picture of life in a segregated city

Can't get enough of the Las Leonas

and his mother

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *

have spurred questions about the country's future

sharply observed story and a sweeping theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time

and their previously buried feelings rise quickly to the surface

in a boat whose motor just died