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"A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.

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…


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Heartwrenching, inspiring, thought provoking poetry from Gaza. I don't often read poetry books, but this was a must for me. The prose is haunting, depressing, yet beautiful all at once.

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