{"product_id":"poems-by-fady-joudah","title":"[. . . ]: Poems by Fady Joudah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Reading the West Book Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFady Joudah's powerful sixth collection of poems opens with, \"I am unfinished business,\" articulating the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people. A rendering of Joudah's survivance, \u003ci\u003e[. . . ]\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to Palestine's daily and historic erasure and insists on presence inside and outside the ancestral land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding 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. \u003ci\u003e[. . .]\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonder. Joudah reminds us \"Wonder belongs to all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFady Joudah \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003e[. . .]\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also published six 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; \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in the Order of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTethered to Stars\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, he 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, Arab American Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and the American Book Award. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booktique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45431592878140,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/4879\/8012\/files\/9781639551286_cfl.jpg?v=1779309137","url":"https:\/\/www.booktique.ca\/products\/poems-by-fady-joudah","provider":"Booktique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}