[...]: Poems

Winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize 2024

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2024

Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens.

Fady Joudah is the author of six previous collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and, most recently, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.

He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.

'The work in […] succeeds as remarkable poetry, and it also tasks readers to remember what ground it arises from: shattered, sorrowful, and sacred.' Chicago Review of Books

'Poems that bound through emotional and intellectual registers, that pierce through pleats of time, geography, and poetic tradition.' Los Angeles Review of Books

'Startling and philosophical... Joudah’s integrity and craftsmanship elasticize the boundaries of the lyric and embrace a reckoning with colonial violence.' The Yale Review

'Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions.' The New Inquiry