This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.

The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman with part two of our interview with the acclaimed Palestinian poet and author Mossab Abutoha.

He has just come to the United States months ago was in Gaza where he lived his whole life. He's just published a new book of poetry titled

Forest of Noise. His previous award-winning book is called Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear poems from Gaza.

Masab is a columnist, teacher, founder of the Edward Saeed Library in Gaza.

He recently published an essay in the New York Times

headline Gaza Schools are for Learning, Not for Dying, and his latest piece for the

New Yorker is headline, The Gaza We Leave Behind.

Thank you so much for staying with us so we can go more deeply into your book of poetry.

Musab, how did you choose the title, Forest of Noise?

In fact, the title of the book is the title of one of the poems called

Forest of Noise, in which I talk about the put holes from the bullets and from the bomb, I mean also the

bomb craters that each bullet hole in our walls and our hospitals in our schools is a forest of noise.

It's full of screams of the people who did not survive.

The screams of people, I mean, I just talked about my neighbor,

Ammar Abulela, who was killed by a bomb shell

and his son is still bleeding in the house because there is no

hospital that can reach that area so even the the bomb creator that was created

by the bomb that killed his father is now being filled with the screams of this boy.

There is no way for him to survive this if he continues to bleed.

So every bullet hole in our buildings, every bomb

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