
- 96 pages
- English
- PDF
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The Earth in the Attic
About this book
Announcing the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets prize
Fady Joudah's The Earth in the Attic is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big themes - identity, war, religion, what we hold in common - while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Glück describes the poet in her Foreword as "that strange animal, the lyric poet in whom circumstance and profession... have compelled obsession with large social contexts and grave national dilemmas." She finds in his poetry an incantatory quality and concludes, "These are small poems, many of them, but the grandeur of conception is inescapable. The Earth in the Attic is varied, coherent, fierce, tender; impossible to put down, impossible to forget."
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American medical doctor and a field member of Doctors Without Borders since 2001. He lives in Houston, TX. He is also the translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s recent poetry The Butterfly's Burden.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- I
- Atlas
- Pulse
- Proposal
- II
- Immigrant Song
- Mother Hair
- The Tea and Sage Poem
- The Way Back
- Sleeping Trees
- Resistance
- An Idea of Return
- Love Poem
- Travel Document
- III
- Landscape
- Scarecrow
- Anonymous Song
- The Name of the Place
- Surviving Caterpillars
- Morning Ritual
- Moon Grass Rain
- Along Came a Spider
- An American Spandrel
- The Onion Poem
- Ascension
- Night Travel
- Condolence
- Image
- Bird Banner
- American Gas Station
- At a Café
- Home
- Additional Notes on Tea
- NOTES