"From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians."--
"From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians."--
Fady Joudah is the author of […]. 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. 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.
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I. [...] 3 [...] 4 [...] 6 [...] 7 [...] 8 Stick Figures 9 [...] 12 Mimesis 13 Bonsai Weeping Willow 14 [...] 15 [...] 16 [...] 18 [...] 19 Progress Notes 20 [...] 22 [...] 23 [...] 24 [...] 26 [...] 27 [...] 28 Eid Mubarak 29 [...] 30 [...] 31 [...] 32 [...] 33 II. [...] 37 I Seem as If I Am: Ten Maqams 38 Maqam for a Green Silence 49 III. [...] 53 Kufic 54 [...] 56 Barzakh 58 Leaves, Glass 60 Maqam for Apricot 61 [...] 62 Ode to an Onion 63 No Kissing, No Biting 64 This Time, Actual Bees 65 IV. [...] 69 [...] 71 Hummingbird 72 [...] 73 Dedication 74 V. Sunbird 79 Acknowledgments 81