Fady Joudah has three poetry collections and four of poetry in translation from the Arabic. He is the recipient of the Yale Series prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2017. 255 pages.
In the preface to Ghassan Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, translator Fady Joudah tells the reader: “To have memory and to a...
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Old friend, when we meet, we will meetas two shelves of wings and many harsh years, as one imagination that won’t exchange toasts:there’s no one to stomp the grapes...
Fady Joudah, tr. Portland, Oregon. Tavern Books. 2014. ISBN 9781935635406
Petra is a beautiful hand-sewn chapbook whose text is set in handsome Garamond typeface printed on archival-quality p...
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Before what happened happened,I mean, before the towers became a stairway to the dayof reckoning, and the world split into twocamps, water and sand,I used to wish that I’d be among the poetswho woul...