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Earth in the Attic

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fady Joudah, Louise Glück (Foreword by)Series:Yale Series of Younger PoetsPublish date:2008-04-01Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300134315ISBN-10:300134312UPC:9780300134315Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.54 x 6.50 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCQFYC19A6
"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger stories of peoples and nations that Joudah encounters. . . . [His] unique talent is to offer poetry readers a look at a wounded and fractured world through his eyes."--Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Institute for Middle East Understanding

Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, 2007

In The Earth in the Attic, Fady Joudah, a Palestinian-American physician, explores big themes--identity, war, religion, what we hold in common--while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Gl?ck 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."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300134315ISBN-10:300134312UPC:9780300134315Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.54 x 6.50 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SCQFYC19A6
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American medical doctor and has served as a field member of Doctors Without Borders. He has published six volumes of poetry and translated several collections, including Ghassan Zaqtan's Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me. His prizes and awards include the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. He lives in Houston, TX.
Publisher: Yale University Press

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