[...] [electronic resource] : Poems
Fady Joudah2024
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From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential
collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.
Fady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with, “I am unfinished
business,” articulating the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people. A
rendering of Joudah’s survivance, [...] speaks to Palestine’s daily and historic
erasure and insists on presence inside and outside the ancestral land.
Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of
seeing the world through a Palestinian lens—a world filled with ordinary
desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be—and asks their reader
to be changed by them. The sequences are meditations on a carousel: the past
returns as the future is foretold. But “Repetition won’t guarantee wisdom,”
Joudah writes, demanding that we resuscitate language “before [our] wisdom is an
echo.” These poems of urgency and care sing powerfully through a comb...
Main title:
[...] [electronic resource] : Poems / Fady Joudah
Author:
Fady Joudah, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Milkweed Editions, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781639551293
Language:
English
BRN:
524734
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |