The Earth in the Attic by Fady Joudah (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Earth in the Attic by Fady Joudah, Louise GlÜck A collection of poems which are varied, coherent, fierce and tender. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudahs 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, The Institute for Middle East UnderstandingWinner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, 2007In 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 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." Author Biography 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 Zaqtans Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me. His prizes and awards include the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. He lives in Houston, TX. Review "The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudahs 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. . . . Joudahs 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 UnderstandingFinalist for the 2008 Book of the Year Award, presented by ForeWord magazine"The Earth in the Attic underscores Fady Joudahs great talent for exacting naked feelings that engage the age-old mysteries of this world, while maintaining a levelheaded residence amidst the everyday vagaries of modern life. The poems here radiate from the personal out into the larger world, propelling along moments of light and transcendence. With a quiet certainty, Fady Joudah names those ordinary things that hold everything in focus, grounded in a fabular mystery that resonates in the twenty-first century."—Yusef Komunyakaa Long Description Fady Joudahs "The Earth in the Attic" is this years 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 Gluck 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." Author Comments Pulse 10 . Details ISBN0300134312 Author Louise GlÜck Short Title EARTH IN THE ATTIC Publisher Yale University Press Series Yale Series of Younger Poets Language English ISBN-10 0300134312 ISBN-13 9780300134315 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.6 Series Number 102 Year 2008 Imprint Yale University Press Birth 1971 Place of Publication New Haven Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780300134315 AU Release Date 2008-04-15 NZ Release Date 2008-04-15 US Release Date 2008-04-15 UK Release Date 2008-04-15 Pages 96 Publication Date 2008-04-15 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:17442308;

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