"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."
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