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Making knots into rainbows.

Ideas: alternative education, neurodiversity, non-violence, cultural studies, collaborative parenting, HAES, anti-racism, permaculture. Interests: memoir, BIPOC fiction, Palestine, California, Ireland, DCP stories, nature writing, creative geography, cookbooks, graphic novels, picture books, poetry, guidebooks. About: White cis woman. Unschooling parent. PhD in English/Feminist Theory, specializing in 19th-20th century California domestic fiction. Volunteer support group moderator. Healing CPTSD. Bagel maker and haphazard gardener.

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Forest of Noise (2024, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 5 stars

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by …

From the acknowledgements:

"I wish my words would turn into clouds that could protect you and all our neighbors and friends from the bombs.

To the souls who remain stuck under the rubble of their houses for weeks or blocked by clouds of smoke from continuing the journey.

To Gaza, I will continue to search for my books under your rubble, for my shadows in your bombed streets and fields of corn and strawberry, and for humanity in your razed graveyards." (80)

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reviewed Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise (2024, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 5 stars

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by …

Grief when there's not a moment of peace

5 stars

This book is full of poems about life in Palestine, longing for home, and grief when there's no moment to grieve because the cruelty keeps expanding and sucking in more and more of what you love. The poems are funerals interrupted mid sentence by bulldozers ripping up the grave on livestreams.