Isabella’s Reviews > Forest of Noise: New poems of hope and resilience by the Pulitzer Prize winning Palestinian writer > Status Update

‘At fifth grade, I visit the school library.
On a wall by the door, a poster claims,
“If you read books, you live more than one life.”
Now I’m thirty and whenever I look at faces
around me, old or young, on each forehead I read:
“If you live in Gaza, you die several times.” ‘