[...] by Fady Joudah
[...] by Fady Joudah
* * Shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Collection, Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, one of TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Must-Read Books of 2024’ * *
Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens.
Find out more, including poems, reviews and interviews on our […] page here.
Read Bhanu Kapil’s response to […] here and visit our […] page to find links to reviews, interviews and poems. Poems from the collection have recently appeared in Arablit Quarterly, Jewish Currents, Lit Hub, LA Review of Books , and the New York Times Magazine and Fady’s prose has also appeared widely (e.g. https://lithub.com/a-palestinian-meditation-in-a-time-of-annihilation/
About Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is the author of […]. He has published six other 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, most recently, 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 in 2007 and has received 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.