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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.