The Earth in the Attic (Paperback)

"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger stories of peoples and nations that Joudah encounters. . . . [His] unique talent is to offer poetry readers a look at a wounded and fractured world through his eyes."-Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, The Institute for Middle East Understanding Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, 2007 In The Earth in the Attic Fady Joudah, a Palestinian-American physician, explores big themes-identity, war, religion, what we hold in common-while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Gluck 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."

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Yale Series of Younger Poets
Release date:	March 2008
First published:	April 2008
Authors:	Fady Joudah
Foreword by:	Louise Gluck
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	77
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-13431-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-300-13431-2
Barcode:	9780300134315

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