Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker. His latest collection of poems is titled Forest of Noise.
Two powerful collections of poetry that grapple with the present-day impact of histories of state-sanctioned violence and colonialism—and at the same time, celebrate the small and big joy found even […]
