A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos—intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even the horoscope. His gaze lingers on the interior space of a lung, on a butterfly pois...

An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates moments of delight and awe with his wife, his mentors, his friends, and the beauty of the natural world. Yet he also finds tenderness for the other, the dead, and the disappeared, bringing together the...

The poems in Alight alternate between the estranging familial and strangely familiar, between burning and illumination. As father, husband, and physician, Fady Joudah gives children and vulnerable others voice in this hauntingly lyrical collection, where, with quiet ferociousness, one’s self can be reclaimed from suffering’s grip over mind and spirit.Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician of internal medicine. He received his...

Emerging in the era of tweets and text-messages comes a new poetic form: textu. The u” in textu echoes the one in haiku, and also emphasizes the intimate you. A textu poem has a single rule: be exactly 160 characters long. As theme, form, and style are wide opened, a textu reveals new possibilities and poetry in unexpected ways.

"A wholly avant-garde book of poetry that reveals a queer history embedded in the castaway detritus of our language." — BookpageA Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeLonglisted for the National Book AwardA New Yorker Best Poetry Book of the YearA Vulture Best Poetry Book of 2018

”Till dem som kommer att mördas under krigets sista dag. Till dem som kommer att mördas under den första dagen efter kriget. Till dem som förgås av skräck under humanitära pauser. En timme innan uppehållet, en minut efter. Till dem som dör av brustet hjärta under och efter kriget.”[…] är den palestinsk-amerikanske poeten Fady Joudahs första bok på svenska. Den skrevs senhösten och vintern 2023, med utgångspunkt i Gaza, och gestaltar poetiskt och egensinnig...

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat.Art. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before "our wild rosebush, neglected / by the gate, / blooms." Lovers who don't return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit....

Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation: A collection of the Palestinian poet's work spanning his career from 1990 to 2005.Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language—lyrical and tender—helped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living metaphor for the universal experiences of exile, loss, and identity. The poems in ...