The earth in the attic / Fady Joudah ; foreword by Louise Gluck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joudah, Fady, 1971-

Series:

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 102.

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joudah, Fady, 1971-.

Joudah, Fady.

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fady Joudah's The Earth in the Attic is the 2007 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 "idian, 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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Atlas

Pulse

Proposal

Immigrant Song

Mother Hair

The Tea and Sage Poem

The Way Back

Sleeping Trees

Resistance

An Idea of Return

Love Poem

Travel Document

Landscape

Scarecrow

Anonymous Song

The Name of the Place

Surviving Caterpillars

Morning Ritual

Moon Grass Rain

Along Came a Spider

An American Spandrel

The Onion Poem

Ascension

Night Travel

Condolence

Image

Bird Banner

American Gas Station

At a Café

Home

Additional Notes on Tea

NOTES

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612089442

9781282089440

1282089447

9780300145168

0300145160

OCLC:

567974480