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SUMMARY:Berkeley\, CA: Direct from Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha
DESCRIPTION:Direct from Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha\nAuthor\, Poet\, and Founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza Reading from his new book: FOREST of NOISE\nDate: Friday\, 8 November\nTime: 6:30-8:30 pm PST\nLocation: Berkeley City College Auditorium – 2050 Center Street Berkeley\, CA 94704\nJoin MECA in welcoming back Palestinian educator\, author and poet\, Mosab Abu Toha\, as he shares portions of his poignant new release Forest of Noise. The reading will be followed by a book signing with the author. Forest of Noise will be available for purchase at the event and is currently available on ShopPalestine.org. Purchase tickets here. \nAbout the Author\nMOSAB 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. \nAbout Forest of Noise\n“A powerful\, capacious\, and profound” (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.\nBarely 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 library he had painstakingly built for community use\, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. \nSomehow\, amid the chaos\, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear\, direct\, and beautifully tuned\, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Here are directives for what to do in an air raid; here are lyrics about the poet’s wife\, singing to his children to distract them. Huddled in the dark\, Abu Toha remembers his grandfather’s oranges\, his daughter’s joy in eating them. \nMoving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation\, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live. Abu Toha’s poems introduce readers to his extended family\, some of them no longer with us. This is an urgent\, extraordinary\, and arrestingly whimsical book. Searing and beautiful\, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.
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LOCATION:Berkeley City College Auditorium\, 2050 Center Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
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