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Billed as "powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong), the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha discusses his new book, Forest of Noise—with novelist Isabella Hammad. At thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was a well-known poet when he and his family fled the conflict unleashed on October 7, 2023. Amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime.
This highly anticipated collection of poems, writes current U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón, are "are urgent, prayerful howls in the bleakest of nights. Necessary, and wrought out of both terror and truth, these poems sing and weep in a rough and haunting harmony. Abu Toha’s work begs the reader to pay close attention as each poetic line is, at its heart, a lifeline to survival.”
Billed as "powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong), the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha discusses his new book, Forest of Noise—with novelist Isabella Hammad. At thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was a well-known poet when he and his family fled the conflict unleashed on October 7, 2023. Amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime.
This highly anticipated collection of poems, writes current U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón, are "are urgent, prayerful howls in the bleakest of nights. Necessary, and wrought out of both terror and truth, these poems sing and weep in a rough and haunting harmony. Abu Toha’s work begs the reader to pay close attention as each poetic line is, at its heart, a lifeline to survival.”
