{"product_id":"tethered-to-stars-poems-9781571315342","title":"Tethered to Stars: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of Poetry of 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/em\u003e inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even the horoscope. His gaze lingers on the interior space of a lung, on a butterfly poised on a filament, on the moon temple atop Huayna Picchu, on a dismembered live oak. In each lingering, Joudah shares with readers the palimpsest of what makes us human: \"We are other worms \/ for other silk roads.\" The solemn, the humorous, the erotic, the transcendent--all of it, in Joudah's poems, steeped in the lexicon of the natural world. \"When I say \u003cem\u003ehoney\u003c\/em\u003e,\" says one lover, \"I'm asking you whose pollen you contain.\" \"And when I say \u003cem\u003ehoney\u003c\/em\u003e,\" replies another, \"you grip my sweetness \/ on your life, stigma and anthophile.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeeming with life but tinged with a sublime proximity to death, \u003cem\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that flows \"between nuance and essentialization,\" from one of our most acclaimed poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13378526\"\u003eFady Joudah\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005060\"\u003eAmerican | Asian American \u0026amp; Pacific Islander\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE013000\"\u003eMiddle Eastern\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023010\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFady Joudah\u003c\/b\u003e has published four collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAlight\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTextu\u003c\/i\u003e, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in the Order of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the coeditor and cofounder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal\/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698079502573,"sku":"9781571315342","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_366f5eac-3789-4447-8b66-46379f532e8b.jpg?v=1649894688","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/tethered-to-stars-poems-9781571315342","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}