Description
Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens-a world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be--and asks their reader to be changed by them. The sequences are meditations on a carousel: the past returns as the future is foretold. But "Repetition won't guarantee wisdom," Joudah writes, demanding that we resuscitate language "before [our] wisdom is an echo." These poems of urgency and care sing powerfully through a combination of intimate clarity and great dilations of scale, sending the reader on heartrending spins through echelons of time. [...] is a wonder. Joudah reminds us "Wonder belongs to all."
Author: Fady Joudah
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781639551286
ISBN10: 163955128X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Middle Eastern
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Political & Protest
About the Author
Fady Joudah is the author of [...], a finalist for the National Book Award. He has also published six collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.