Fady Joudah

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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.

The Silence That Remains by Ghassan Zaqtan
By Ghassan Zaqtan

Ghassan Zaqtan
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…
Old Reasons
By Ghassan Zaqtan
March 2017
Ghassan Zaqtan
Photo: Andreas Manessinger/Flickr 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…
Petra: The Concealed Rose by Amjad Nasser
By Amjad Nasser

Amjad Nasser
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…
A Postponed Poem for New York
By Amjad Nasser
July 2013
Amjad Nasser
I 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…