Forest of Noise: Poems Jazz she never intended to become

she never intended to become The Afrominimalist

Hope and Mullen argue

The whiplash feels intentional

the author of such powerful and influential books as Ain't I a Woman and Black Looks

This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women

Forest of Noise: Poems Jazz she never intended to becomeA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize winning writer You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. 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 library he had